WUSS 2011 Proceedings
Best Contributed Paper Winner
Analytics & Statistics
Boost
your confidence in a 2x2 standard table
Iuliana
Barbalau, ClinOps
Estimating
Disease Prevalence from Clinical Data Using Capture-Recapture
Carol
Conell, Kaiser Permanente
An
Introduction to the Analysis of Rare Events
Nate
Derby, Stakana Analytics
Miguel
Garcia-Cerrutti, CA Energy Commission
What's
happening if there is "B" in the general linear modeling output?
Jason
Shilong Kuang, Kelley Blue Book, Inc.
Beyond
Breslow-Day: Homogeneity Across R x C Tables
Ginny
Lai, ICON Clinical Research
Fitting
latency models in epidemiological studies
Bryan
Langholz, University of Southern California
Consistency
of Treatment Effect cross Regions
Yunfeng
Li, Cerexa, Inc.
Evaluation
of the Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging
Adulthood
Nadra
Lisha, University of Southern California
“Before
and After” Models in Observational Research Using Random Slopes and Intercepts
David
Pasta, ICON Clinical Research
Maura
Stokes, SAS Institute
Why
Dummy Variable Makes You SMART, and How to Do it SEXY
Brian
(Guanghui) Sun, Rick Hansen Institute
Principal
Component Regression as a Countermeasure against Collinearity
Chong
Ho Yu, Arizona State University
Applications Development
Kevin
Bickford, SAS Institute
Automating
file pulls for recurring jobs ad-hoc reports or other SAS processes
Ezekiel
Budda, Department of Defense
Protecting
Macros and Macro Variables: It Is All About Control
Art
Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
Reading
and Writing RTF Documents as Data: Automatic Completion of CONSORT Flow
Diagrams
Art
Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
%GetTweet:
A New SAS® Macro to Fetch and Summarize Tweets
Satish
Garla, Oklahoma State University
How to
easily convert clinical data to CDISC SDTM
Ale
Gicqueau, Clinovo
Joe
Perry, Perry & Associates Consulting
Benefits
of JAVA Within SAS: Exploring the Differences of the new JavaObj and SAS/IML
Studio
Diana
Shealy, California Polytechnic State University
at San Luis Obispo
Working
the System: Our Best SAS® Options
Patrick
Thornton, SRI International
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc
Business
Intelligence
Satish Garla,
Oklahoma State University
Create Compelling Visualizations with
Geographic Data and JMP®9
Laura Higgins, JMP
Using affinity Models for Buyer Behaviors
Matthias Kehder, Modern
Analytics
Rachel Poulsen, TiVo
Donald Price, Metropolitan
State College of Denver
Practically Perfect Presentations
Cynthia Zender, SAS
Institute
Coders’ Corner
Output SAS® DATA Step
Views: an Experimental Feature
Thomas Billings, Union Bank
Alice Cheng, Independent
Macro Tabulating Missing Values,
Leveraging SAS® PROC CONTENTS
Adam Chow, Dept. of Veterans
Affairs
Exporting Variable
Labels as Column Headers in Excel using SAS®
Chaitanya Chowdagam, MaxisIT
Sam and Max’s Adventure in SAS®
Macro Land. (Quick and Easy tips for Macro programming)
Sam/Seunghee Chung, Educational Testing
Service
Sending Emails in SAS® to
Facilitate Clinical Trial
Frank Fan, Clinovo
Has Anybody Opened My
File? Find Out Before Trying to Update it
Olena Galligan, Teikoku Pharma, USA
SAS Date refresher: cleaning up
legacy code using ANYDTDTEw., ANYDTDTMw. and ANYDTDTMEw. informats
Laura Kelly, Bank of America
Efficient
Techniques and Tips in Handling Large Datasets
Jason Shilong Kuang, Kelley Blue Book,
Inc.
HTMLBlue That’s Really, Really Where We’re Going To!
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS Institute
Conditional Processing
Using the Case Expression in PROC SQL®
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software
Intelligence Corporation
You Could Be a SAS®
Nerd If . . .
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software
Intelligence Corporation
Xiao Liu, ICON Late Phase
& Outcomes Research
VBA Microsoft Access
2007 Macros to Import Formats and Labels to SAS®
Maria Melguizo Castro, University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Tag It, Bag It, Put It
Out into Excel
Ethan Miller, SRI International
SAS Data Step Debugger:
Your Liberator from Logic Errors
Brandi Rhoads, Franchise Tax Board
Assigning a
User-defined Macro to a Function Key
Mary Rosenbloom, Edwards
Lifesciences, LLC
Best Practices: Clean
House to Avoid Hangovers
Mary Rosenbloom, Edwards
Lifesciences, LLC
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
Creating SAS® Datasets
from Varied Sources
Sofia Shamas, Maxisit Inc
Customized Graphics
Made Simpler
Sofia Shamas, Maxisit Inc
Sarah Short, ICON Clinical
Research
Using PROC SQL to
Calculate FIRSTOBS
David Tabano, Kaiser Permanente
Patrick Thornton, SRI International
Adding PROC SQL to your
SAS® toolbox for merging multiple tables without common variable names
Susan Wancewicz, University of
California, San Diego
Data
Capture, Validation, Manipulation, & Integration
Array, Hurray, Array;
Consolidate or Expand Your Input Data Stream Using Arrays
William Benjamin Jr, Owl Computer
Consultancy LLC
The Many Uses of SQL
Subqueries
Tasha Chapman, State of Oregon –
DCBS
SAS® Formats and the
Format Procedure
Christine Riddiough, SAS Institute
Helping Students Become Effective
Industry Statisticians: Supplementing Science with Data Savvy
Aleksandra Stein, Celerion/University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
Probabilistic Record
Linkage in SAS®
Glenn Wright, UCSF
Data Presentation
Tim Beese, SAS Institute
Steven Black, W. L. Gore &
Associates
Data Visualization of
User Interface Navigation Using Interactive Treeview Diagrams
Aruna Buddana, TiVo Inc
Making the Most Out of
Multilabel Formats
Tasha Chapman, State of Oregon –
DCBS
Is the Legend in your SAS/Graph®
Output Still Telling the Right Story?
Alice Cheng, Independent
Graphing a Progression of Time
Series Plots with ODS Graphics
Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics
Using SAS® GTL to Visualize Your
Data When There is Too Much of It to Visualize
Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics
Now You Can Annotate Your
Statistical Graphics Procedure Graphs
Dan Heath, SAS Institute
Let’s Give ’Em
Something to TOC about: Transforming the Table of Contents of Your PDF File
Chevell Parker, SAS Institute
The Perfect Marriage:
The SAS® Output Delivery System (ODS) and Microsoft Office
Chevell Parker, SAS Institute
SAS® Data Query and Edit
Checks Web 2.0
A Guide for Using SAS®
and OpenXML to Create Charts in MS Excel®
James Van Campen, SRI International
SAS® Style Templates: Always in Fashion
Cynthia Zender, SAS Institute
Hands-on-Workshops
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental
Consultants
Statistical Graphics for Clinical
Research Using ODS Graphics Designer
Wei Cheng, Isis
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Creating Stylish
Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
Vince DelGobbo, SAS Institute
Ready To Become Really Productive
Using PROC SQL?
Sunil Gupta, Gupta Programming
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software
Intelligence Corporation
Getting Up to Speed
with PROC REPORT
Kimberly LeBouton, KJL Computing
Hands-on-Workshop/SAS
Essentials
PROC TABULATE: Getting Started
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
Health Outcomes
& Healthcare Research Methodologies
Use CDISC SDTM as a data
middle-tier to streamline your SAS® infrastructure
Kalyani Chilukuri, clinovo
A SAS® Macro Program to Calculate
Medication Adherence Rate for Single and Multiple Medication Use-
Hao Chu, Kaiser Permanent
Southern California
Nadia Chung, City of Hope
Sheila Dayog, Genentech, A Member
of the Roche Group
Are You in Need of Validation? Psychometric Evaluation of Questionnaires Using SAS®
Eric Elkin, ICON Late Phase & Outcomes Research
Causal Methods for
Observational Data
Amanda Stevenson, University of Texas
at Austin
Andrea Masias, University of
Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Lori Miller, University of
Washington
Clinical Data Review on
iPad® with DEFINE.XML
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.
Combining PROC SQL
Summary Functions with Logical Expressions
Glenn Wright, UCSF
Beinan Zhao, Palo Alto Medical
Foundation Research Institute
Estimating Sample Size through
Simulations
Wuchen Zhao, University of
Souther California
Posters
Megha Agarwal, Clinovo
ChiD, A χ 2 -Based
Discretization Algorithm
Ross Bettinger, Modern Analytics
Is Your SAS Library a
Disk Hog? Here’s How to Put it on a Diet
Ross Bettinger, Modern Analytics
Solve Eight Queens Puzzle with
SAS® Macro
Jian Dai, Clinovo
Richard Koopmann, Capella University
Zubair Shaik, Oklahoma State
University
JMP® Scripting: Advanced
Techniques
Erin Vang, Global Pragmatica
SAS Program as a Backup Tool for
an Adaptive Randomization System
Yajie Wang, VA Palo Alto HCS
Resources
At Your Service: Your
Roadmap to Support from SAS®
Kathy Council, SAS Institute
What is a SAS Mentor
and why do I need one?
Stanley Fogleman, Harvard Clinical
Research Institute
Improving Your SAS®
Skills and Expertise - Career Path Considerations
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
Top Ten SAS® Sites for
Programmers: A Review
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software
Intelligence Corporation
This is how we do it:
teaching SAS® in the Cal Poly Statistics Department
Rebecca Ottesen (Jimmy Doi), City of Hope / Cal
Poly SLO
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.
SAS Essentials
Tips and Techniques for the SAS®
Programmer
Helen Carey, Carey Consulting
SAS Essentials I: SAS® Functions for a Better Functioning Community
AnnMaria De Mars, The Julia Group
SAS Essentials II: Better-Looking SAS for a Better Community
AnnMaria De Mars, The Julia Group
SAS Essentials III: Statistics for Hamsters
AnnMaria
De Mars, The Julia Group
SAS Macro Programming for Beginners
Susan Slaughter, Avocet
Solutions
Introduction to SAS® Programming
Lily Xu, Ohlone College
Tutorials
An Introduction to SAS® Character
Functions
Ronald Cody, self-employed
An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the
Easy Way with SAS®
Vince DelGobbo, SAS Institute
SAS Macros for the Working
Statistician
William Krebs, Self-empolyed
Creating Statistical
Graphics with ODS in SAS® Software
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS Institute
Power Analysis: What is Available
and What You Need to Know
Gerry Hobbs, West Virginia
University
Powerful and Sometimes
Hard-to-find PROC SQL® Features
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software
Intelligence Corporation
HELP, My SAS® Program
isn't Working: Where to Turn When You Need Help
Kimberly LeBouton, KJL Computing
Statistical Analyses
Using SAS® Enterprise Guide®
R. Scott Leslie, MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.
Tips and Tricks for SG
Procedures and GTL for Clinical Graphs
Sanjay Matange, SAS Institute
Getting Freqy with PROC
REPORT
Ethan Miller, SRI International
Becoming a
Better Programmer with SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.3
Andy Ravenna, SAS Institute
Understanding the
Anatomy of a SAS® Deployment: What's in My Server Soup?
Connie Robison, SAS Institute
Up To Speed With
Categorical Data Analysis
Maura Stokes, SAS Institute