You can easily automate the process that you wish to work on by using one of the available softwares like MassTer from MASS analytics. You can also find some really insightful content on the educational YouTube channel. ... View more

I currently do most of my work in Enterprise Guide and am seeing SAS Studio in my future as we transition to Viya. I have a couple of projects set up with sequential and parallel processing. Do process flows in SAS Studio work pretty much the same way they do in Enterprise Guide? ... View more

Hi Rick.   I think I can answer this 'on behalf' of the original posting community member, in case it takes too long for them to reply to your (as usual) very helpful post. I teach the SAS Advanced Business Analytics (ABA) course, not heavily disguised at all as an 8 north american university credit equivalent postgraduate marketing course at my (southern hemisphere) university. I recognized to scoring code immediately. It has the distinctive structural signature of scoring code produced by SAS Enterprise Miner, hence the additional comment in the original post about the scoring code being heavily entwined in SAS maco code. SAS Enterprise Miner makes heavy use of macro code to produce the scoring code when requested via the 'score code' property of the model comparison node in SAS Enterprise Miner. SAS EM scoring code is designed to be cut and pasted into either a minimal pair of SAS data step wrapper statements, or similar SAS DS2 step wrapper statements, or a minimal set of wrapper statement in maximal number of other data processing languages that share the SAS data step syntax element subset employed by the SAS Enterprise Miner model node scoring function.   I hope that observation helps! ... View more

Stacy, you might find this exchange interesting. @PGStats built a nice example.     https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Statistical-Procedures/Should-I-use-quot-Offset-quot-or-add-a-quot-rate-quot-variable/td-p/324342   ... View more

I am interested in the ratio of parameter estimates, not the effect of a ratio variable as predictor. That is, y = G(a + bX + cY) I am interested in the standard error of b/c.   I found this interesting code from Russell Millar. He uses proc NLMIXED to calculate the delta method for arbitrary (2 variable) functions. Once I get my head around how nlmixed works, I might try generalising this to work from the COVB matrix output. https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~millar/730/ComputerCode/DeltaMethodMacro.sas   ... View more

Thanks! This helps. max rank should not be a class statement. ... View more

It was a panel sample where the individuals needed to fufill certain criteria (e.g., adults in a certain state). ... View more

I'm with @SASKiwi - there's no nerves of steel in Wellington. There was another 4.8 magnitude shock this evening, about 50km away. Fortunately where we are, we often don't feel them, or very much (although the 7.8 monster scared the **bleep** out of us). But many others in Wellington were nervous again. And this is nothing compared with the poor sods in Christchurch who went through this for years, and are still rudely reminded of what they went through.   You never get blasé about earthquakes. ... View more

Yes, since proc surveylogistic uses maximum likelihood estimation, binary or nominal marginal effects should be  asconsistently estimated as linear effects are. ... View more

I would use proc glimmix instead with the / dist=binomial model statement option and specify a random statement that partitions the variance down to an individual subject level, such as   random intercept / subject=ID;   or if your controls only appear in one (are nested in one) case-control block, and the block is identified as block,   random intercept block / subject=ID;         ... View more