Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 Time: Noon - 1:00 PM ET Place: Online Cost:  Free- but please register by Tuesday,  January 16.  The webinar link will be sent out to all registered attendees by Wednesday, January 17. Register Now!   Agenda Getting Started with Building Regression Models for Prediction - Robert N. Rodriguez This webinar will introduce you to SAS/STAT procedures in SAS 9 that train regression models from large, complex data for doing prediction with future data. The procedures are designed to avoid overfitting the training data, and the models they build are interpretable—an advantage over machine learning models. Examples use the GLMSELECT procedure to build a general linear model for store performance and the HPGENSELECT procedure to build a generalized linear model for insurance claims.   Bob Rodriguez retired from SAS in 2018 after serving as senior director for the development of statistical software. He received his PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The webinar draws from his book, Building Regression Models with SAS: A Guide for Data Scientists, which was published by SAS Press in 2023. ... View more

The Michigan SAS User Group will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday, December 7.  Our guest speaker, Troy Martin Hughes, will be giving 2 presentations:  "Sorting a Bajillion Variables-When SORTC and SORTN Subroutines Have Stopped Satisfying, User-Defined PROC FCMP Subroutines Can Leverage the Hash Object to Reorder Limitless Arrays",and "Make You Holla' Tikka Masala: Creating User-Defined Informats Using the PROC FORMAT OTHER Option To Call User-Defined FCMP Functions That Facilitate Data Ingestion Data Quality".  Please register in advance by Tuesday, December 5 using the link on our website in order to receive the webinar login information.   We also held our annual 1-Day SAS Conference back in September at Schoolcraft College, and all of the presentations have been posted on our website.  Happy reading!   Thanks,     Nancy ... View more

Hi all,   What application do you use to send out email blasts to your membership?  MSUG has been using MailChimp, but we were notified today that they've decreased the maximum number of contacts allowed under their free plan, as well as the maximum number of emails that can be sent per day, and we'll be over both of those limits, so would have to move to a paid plan starting in March.    Thanks,     Nancy  ... View more