Analytics & Statistics |
Section Chairs: Arthur Li and Lida Gharibvand |
Maura Stokes (SAS) |
On Deck: SAS/STAT 9.3 |
Nate Derby
(Stakana Analytics) |
An Introduction to the Analysis of Rare Events |
David Pasta
(ICON Clinical Research) |
"Before and After" Models in Observational Research using Random Slopes and Intercepts |
Iuliana Barbalau (ClinOps) |
Boost your confidence in a 2x2 standard table |
Carol Conell
(Kaiser Permanente) |
Estimating Disease Prevalence from Clinical Data Using Capture-Recapture |
Miguel Garcia-Cerrutti
(CA Energy Commission) |
Assessing resource adequacy uncertainty in California electricity summer demand using the MCMC procedure in SAS® Enterprise Miner |
Jason Shilong Kuang
(Kelley Blue Book, Inc.) |
What's happening if there is "B" in the general linear modeling output? |
Ginny Lai
(ICON Clinical Research)
David R Mink, David J. Pasta
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Beyond Breslow-Day: Homogeneity Across R x C Tables |
Bryan Langholz
(University of Southern California)
David B Richardson |
Fitting latency models in epidemiological studies |
Yunfeng Li
(Cerexa, Inc.)
Lily Llorens, Ganesh Tamarana |
Consistency of Treatment Effect cross Regions |
Nadra Lisha
(University of Southern California)
Rachel Grana, Ping Sun, Louise Rohrbach, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Alan Reifman, Steve Sussman |
Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood in a Sample of Continuation High School Students |
Brian (Guanghui) Sun
(Rick Hansen Institute) |
Why Dummy Variable Makes You SMART, and How to Do it SEXY |
Chong Ho Yu
(University of Phoenix) |
Principal component regression as a countermesue against collinearity |
Applications Development |
Section Chairs: Cynthia LeardMann and Renato Villacorte |
Kevin Bickford (SAS) |
Turbo-Charging Your Microsoft Office Environment with SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 4.3 |
Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)
Eric Sun |
Protecting Macros and Macro Variables: It Is All About Control |
Joe Perry
(Perry & Associates Consulting) |
Managing Your Intellectual Property: Optimizing Your Investment Resources by Building a Searchable® Program Repository |
Ezekiel Budda
(Department of Defense) |
Automating file pulls for recurring jobs, ad-hoc reports or any SAS process. |
Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)
Dennis F Fisher |
Reading and Writing RTDocuments as Data: Automatic Completion of CONSORT Flow Diagrams |
Satish Garla
(Oklahoma State University)
Goutam Chakraborty |
%GetTweet: A New SAS® Macro to Fetch and Summarize Tweets |
Ale Gicqueau
(Clinovo) |
How to easily convert clinical data to CDISC SDTM |
Diana Shealy
(Cal Poly State Univ San Luis Obispo) |
Benefits of JAVA Within SAS: Exploring the Differences of the new JavaObj and SAS/IML Studio |
Patrick Thornton
(SRI International)
Iuliana Barbalau |
Working the System: Our Best SAS® Options |
Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.) |
SAS Macros in an Era of Apps |
Business Intelligence |
Section Chairs: Tom Cross and Carter Sevick |
Laura Higgins (SAS) |
Create compelling visualizations with geographic data and JMP 9 |
Satish Garla
(Oklahoma State University)
Goutam Chakraborty, Gary J Gaeth |
Comparison of K-means, Normal Mixtures and Probabilistic-D Clustering for B2B Segmentation using Customers' Perceptions |
Matthias Kehder
(Modern Analytics)
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Using Affinity Models for Buyer Behaviors |
Rachel Poulsen
(TiVo) |
Modeling Interactive Advertising on TiVo: Overcoming the Challenges of Collinearity, Efficiency, and Practicality |
Donald Price
(Metropolitan State College of Denver) |
If you imbed it...? |
Coders' Corner |
Section Chairs: Mary McCracken and Ethan Miller |
Warren Kuhfeld (SAS) |
HTMLBlue That’s Really, Really Where We’re Going To! |
Thomas Billings
(Union Bank) |
Output SAS® DATA Step Views: an Experimental Feature |
Alice Cheng
(Independent) |
Hunting for Columbus' Eggs in the SAS® Programming World: A Guidance to Creative Thinking for SAS® Programmers |
Adam Chow
(Dept. of Veterans Affairs) |
Macro Tabulating Missing Values, Leveraging SAS PROC CONTENTS |
Chaitanya Chowdagam
(MaxisIT) |
Exporting Variable Labels as Column Headers in Excel using SAS® |
Sam/Seunghee Chung
(Educational Testing Service)
Maxwell Wise |
Sam and Max's Adventure in SAS® Macro Land. (Quick and Easy tips for Macro programming) |
Frank Fan
(Clinovo) |
Sending emails in SAS to facilitate clinical trials |
Olena Galligan
(Teikoku Pharma, USA) |
Who opened my file? Find out before trying to update it. |
Laura Kelly
(Bank of America) |
SAS Date refresher: cleaning up legacy code using ANYDTDTEw., ANYDTDTMw. and ANYDTDTMEw. Informats |
Jason Shilong Kuang
(Kelley Blue Book, Inc.) |
Efficient Techniques and Tips in handling large datasets |
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) |
Conditional Processing using the Case Expression in PROC SQL |
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) |
You Could be a SAS® Nerd If . . . |
Xiao Liu
(ICON Late Phase & Outcomes Research)
Stefanie Millar |
Producing Cumulative Distribution Frequency Figures with Minimal Important Difference Reference Lines to Assess Quality of Life Treatment Effects |
Maria Melguizo Castro
(Univ of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
Jerry R Stalnaker,
Christopher J Swearingen |
VBA Microsoft Access 2007 Macros to import Formats and Labels to SAS |
Ethan Miller
(SRI International) |
Tag It, Bag It, Put it out into Excel |
Brandi Rhoads
(Franchise Tax Board) |
SAS Data Step Debugger: Your Liberator from Logic Errors |
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)
Arthur L Carpenter |
Macro Quoting to the Rescue: Passing Special Characters |
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC) |
Using PROC CONTENTS and a Macro to Convert Internal Data Values to their Associated Format Values |
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)
Kirk P Lafler |
Assigning a User-defined Macro to a Function Key |
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)
Kirk P Lafler |
Best Practices: Clean House to Avoid Hangovers |
Sofia Shamas
(MaxisIT Inc)
Mansi Singh |
Customized Graphics Made Simpler |
Sofia Shamas
(MaxisIT Inc)
Mansi Singh |
Creating SAS® Datasets From Varied Sources |
Sarah Short
(ICON Clinical Research)
Dave P Miller |
Are you taking it day by day or having an episode? Identifying and describing patterns in longitudinal data |
David Tabano
(Kaiser Permanente) |
Using PROC SQL to Calculate FIRSTOBS |
Patrick Thornton
(SRI International) |
Quick ODS OUTPUT Statements |
Susan Wancewicz
(University of California, San Diego) |
Adding PROC SQL to your toolbox for merging multiple tables without common variable names |
Data Capture, Validation, Manipulation, & Integration |
Section Chair: James VanCampen |
Christine Riddiough
(SAS) |
SAS® Formats and the FORMAT Procedure |
Glenn Wright
(UCSF)
Denis Hulett |
Probabilistic Record Linkage in SAS |
William Benjamin Jr
(Owl Computer Consultancy LLC) |
Array, Hurray, Array; Consolidate or Expand Your Input Data Stream Using Arrays. |
Tasha Chapman
(State of Oregon - Department of Consumer and Business Services) |
The many uses of SQL subqueries |
Aleksandra Stein
(Celerion/University of Nebraska-Lincoln) |
Helping Students Become Effective Industry Statisticians: Supplementing Science with Data Savvy |
Data Presentation |
Section Chairs: Tom Cross and Carter Sevick |
Tim Beese (SAS) |
Tips and Techniques for Automating the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office with VBA |
Dan Heath (SAS) |
Now You Can Annotate your SG Procedure Graphs |
Chevell Parker (SAS) |
The Perfect Marriage: The SAS® Output Delivery System (ODS) and Microsoft Office |
Chevell Parker (SAS) |
Let's Give'em Something to TOC About: Transforming the Table of Contents of Your PDF File |
Cynthia Zender (SAS) |
SAS® Style Templates: Always in Fashion |
Cynthia Zender (SAS) |
Practically Perfect Presentations |
Nate Derby
(Stakana Analytics)
Perry Watts |
Using SAS GTL to Visualize Your Data when there is Too Much of it to Visualize |
Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.)
Carey G Smoak |
SAS® Data Query and Edit Checks Web 2.0 |
Steven Black
(W. L. Gore & Associates) |
The Wonderful Wizard Of ODS - Using The EXCELXP Tagset Coupled With Proc Template, And Proc Report, To Twist Your World From Gray To All The Colors Of The Rainbow. |
Aruna Buddana
(TiVo Inc) |
Data Visualization of User Interface Navigation Using Interactive Treeview Diagrams |
Tasha Chapman
(State of Oregon - Department of Consumer and Business Services) |
Making the most of multi-label formats |
Alice Cheng
(Independent) |
Is the Legend in your SAS/Graph® Output Still Telling the Right Story? |
Nate Derby
(Stakana Analytics)
Laura Vo, Perry Watts |
Graphing a Progression of Time Series Plots with ODS Graphics |
James Van Campen
(SRI International) |
A Guide for Using SAS® and OpenXML to Create Charts in MS Excel® |
Hands-on-Workshops |
Section Chairs: Wei Cheng and Katie Martin |
Vince DelGobbo (SAS) |
Creating Stylish Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS® |
Sanjay Matange (SAS)
Wei Cheng
(Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) |
Statistical Graphics for Clinical Research Using ODS Graphics Designer |
Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants) |
PROC TABULATE: Getting Started |
Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants) |
PROC TABULATE: Doing More |
Sunil Gupta
(Gupta Programming) |
Ready To Become Really Productive Using PROC SQL? |
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) |
Quick Results with PROC SQL |
Kimberly LeBouton
(KJL Computing) |
Getting Up to Speed with PROC REPORT |
Susan Slaughter
(Avocet Solutions)
Lora Delwiche |
Graphing Made Easy with SG Procedures |
Health Outcomes & Healthcare Research Methodologies |
Section Chair: Brenda Beaty |
Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.) |
Clinical Data Review on iPad with DEFINE.XML |
Kalyani Chilukuri
(Clinovo) |
Use CDISC SDTM as a data middle-tier to streamline your SAS infrastructure |
Li-Hao Chu
(Kaiser Permanent Southern California)
Annie Gu, Aniket Kawatkar |
A SAS Macro Program to Calculate Medication Adherence Rate for Single and Multiple Medication Use |
Nadia Chung
(City of Hope)
Huiyan Ma, Jane Sullivan-Halley, Jenna Voutsinas, Sophia S Wang, Leslie Bernstein, James V Lacey Jr. |
Linkage of hospitalization records with time series data to define chronic disease events in a prospective epidemiologic study |
Sheila Dayog
(Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group) |
Analyze This! Supporting Clinical Decisions Graphically When Not Enough Data is Available, A study case: Challenges in NCI CTCAE Version 4 Grading |
Eric Elkin
(ICON) |
Are You In Need of Validation? Psychometric Evaluation Of Questionnaires Using SAS |
Andrea Masias
(Univ of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) |
Effects of Timing on Surgery in Children with Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction: A Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) Database Study using SAS |
Lori Miller
(University of Washington) |
Using SAS Procedure Proc Mixed to Assess the Effects of School Health Policy Requirements on Change in Student Health Outcomes |
Amanda Stevenson
(University of Texas at Austin) |
Causal Methods for Observational Data |
Glenn Wright
(UCSF) |
Combining PROC SQL Summary Functions with Logical Expressions |
Wuchen Zhao
(University of Southern California)
Arthur Li |
Estimating Sample Size through Simulations |
Beinan Zhao
(Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute)
Eric C Wong, Latha Palaniappan |
Clinical Data Integration for Observational Studies Using Electronic Health Records: Examples with Defining Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes |
Posters |
Section Chairs: Raoul Bernal and Michael Zinkovitch |
Megha Agarwal
(Clinovo) |
SAS DM Statements Unveiled |
Ross Bettinger
(Modern Analytics) |
Is Your SAS Library a Disk Hog? Here's How to Put it on a Diet |
Ross Bettinger
(Modern Analytics) |
ChiD - A Chi-Squared Discretization Algorithm |
Jian Dai
(Clinovo) |
Solve Eight Queens Puzzle with SAS Macro |
Richard Koopmann
(Capella University) |
Using Vovici API in SAS 9.2 |
Gerardo Perez-Lizarraga
(University of Southern California) |
Graphic versus Visual Displays for Representation of Data on Social Trends |
Anpalaki Ragavan
(University of Nevada, Reno) |
Taylor Series Based Linearization for Forecasting Time Series Data? |
Zubair Shaik
(Oklahoma State University) |
SAS® since 1976 |
Erin Vang
(Global Pragmatica) |
JMP Scripting: Advanced Techniques |
Yajie Wang
(VA Palo Alto HCS) |
SAS Program as a Backup Tool for an Adaptive Randomization System |
Resources |
Section Chairs: Patrick Thornton and Kirk Paul Lafler |
Kathy Council (SAS) |
At Your Service: Your Roadmap to Support from SAS® |
Jimmy Doi
( Cal Poly SLO)
Rebecca Ottesen, Ulric Lund, Karen McGaughey |
This is how we do it: teaching SAS in the Cal Poly Statistics Department |
Stanley Fogleman
(Harvard Clinical Research Institute) |
What is a SAS Mentor and why do I need one? |
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Charles Shipp |
Improving Your SAS® Skills and Expertise - Career Path Considerations |
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) |
Top Ten SAS® Sites for Programmers: A Review |
Rebecca Ottesen
(City of Hope / Cal Poly SLO)
Jimmy Doi, Ulric Lund, Karen McGaughey |
This is how we do it: teaching SAS in the Cal Poly Statistics Department |
Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.) |
WUSS Conference Android App |
SAS Essentials Workshop |
Section Chairs: Isabel Jacobson and Sunil Gupta |
AnnMaria De Mars
(The Julia Group) |
SAS Essentials I: SAS Functions for a Better Functioning Community |
SAS Essentials II: Better-looking SAS for a better community |
SAS Essentials III: Statistics for Hamsters |
Helen Carey
Ginger Carey
(Carey Consulting) |
Tips and Techniques for the SAS® Programmer |
Susan Slaughter
(Avocet Solutions)
Lora Delwiche |
SAS Macro Programming for Beginners |
Lily Xu
(Ohlone College) |
Introduction to SAS Programming |
Tutorials |
Section Chairs: R. Scott Leslie and Richard Allen |
Vince DelGobbo (SAS) |
An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS® |
Warren Kuhfeld (SAS) |
Creating Statistical Graphics with ODS in SAS Software |
Sanjay Matange (SAS) |
Tips and Tricks for SG Procedures and GTL for Clinical Graphs |
Andy Ravenna (SAS) |
Becoming a Better Programmer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 |
Connie Robison (SAS) |
Understanding the Anatomy of a SAS Deployment -- What's in My Server Soup? |
Maura Stokes (SAS) |
Up to Speed with Categorical Data Analysis |
Ronald Cody
(self-employed) |
An Introduction to SAS Character Functions |
Gerry Hobbs
(West Virginia University) |
Power Analyses: What is Available and What You Need to Know |
William Krebs
(Self-empolyed) |
SAS Macros for the Working Statistician |
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) |
Powerful and Sometimes Hard-to-find PROC SQL® Features |
Kimberly LeBouton
(KJL Computing) |
HELP, My SAS® Program isn't Working: Where to Turn When You Need Help |
Ethan Miller
(SRI International) |
Getting Freqy With PROC REPORT |
R. Scott Leslie
(MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.) |
Statistical Analyses Using SAS Enterprise Guide |