WUSS 1997 Conference Proceedings

Universal City, California
October 22-24, 1997

Applications Development

(PDF) Using the Data Warehouse Model is Streamline and Accelerate New Drug and Medical Device Development
Author: Martin J. Rosenberg, MAJARO InfoSystems Inc.

(PDF) Introducing Release 6.12 of the SAS System for Personal Computers
Author: Russ Robison, SAS

(PDF) On Time and Under Budget: Guidelines for Success Using the SAS System with Traditional Structured Techniques
Authors: Marc Daniels, Community Care Network; Clark M. Roberts, Decision Analytics

(PDF) Taking the Mystery Out of SAS Macrop With Using CALL SYMPUT
Authors: K. Larry Landers, Triology Consulting; Monique Bryher, MRI Consulting

(PDF) Survival Strategies and Solutions for the new Millenium – Year 2000
Authors: Kirk Paul Lafler, Millennium Technologies Institute; Sunil Kumar Gupta, Millennium Technologies Institute; Charles Edwin Shipp, Millennium Technologies Institute

(PDF) CATALOGER: An Application Development Tool to Search, Compare, and Document SAS Catalogs and Data Files
Authors: Christopher A. Roper, Qualex Consulting Services, Inc.; Michael Gilman, Qualex Consulting Services, Inc.

(PDF) Calling External Modules from the SAS System
Author: Richard D. Langston, SAS

(PDF) Monitoring a Cohort of Blood Donors and Recipients using SAS/AF FRAME
Author: Monique Bryher, MRI Consulting Inc.

(PDF) A History of Software Development at SAS Institute Inc.
Author: Richard D. Langston, SAS

(PDF) Critical Success Factors in Software Development
Author: Arnold Goodman, University of California – Irvine

(PDF) A Data Management System for Use in Smaller Biotech Companies
Author: Ellen Krantz, Consultant

Coders’ Corner

(PDF) Incrementing Year Fields in Flat Files to Test Year 2000 Compliance
Author: Brian Bouvier, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company

(PDF) Year 2000 Hex Storage
Authors: Kirk Paul Lafler, Millenium Technologies Institute, Inc.; Sunil Kumar Gupta, Millennium Technologies Institute; Charles Edwin Shipp, Millennium Technologies Institute

(PDF) The Problem with NODUPS
Author: Jack F. Hamilton, HealthCare COMPARE Corporation

(PDF) Better Titles: Using the #BYVAR and #BYVAL Title Options
Author: Arthur L. Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants

(PDF) Creating Shortcuts to Online SAS Help
Author: Jodie M. Gilmore, Freelance Technical Writer

(PDF) Create a Flexible Parameter Driven Reporting Program By Using Global Variables and PROC REPORT
Author: Karen Dudley, Blue Cross Blue Shield New Mexico

(PDF) The Select Statement
Author: Jack F. Hamilton, HealthCare COMPARE Corporation

(PDF) Output Tabluated Information into Data Sets
Authors: Zhirong Mao, Blue Cross of California; Yuejing XU, Q & L Consulting

(PDF) A General Purpose Macro to Obtain a List of Files
Author: Mel Widawski, University of California – Los Angeles

(PDF) Smokin with UNIX Pipes
Authors: Kimberly Stinson LeBouton, K.J.L. Computing; Thomas W. Rice, American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

Data Analysis and Statistics

(PDF) Using SAS for Survival Analysis
Author: Elizabeth Li, Chastain Research Group, Inc.

(PDF) How to Use the SAS Software to Evaluate Screening Tests Using Predictive Values in Conjunction with ROC Curves
Author: Richard Severino, The Queen’s Medical Center

(PDF) Population Adjusted Kaplan-Meier Curves
Author: Jimmy Thomas Efird, Roche Global Development

(PDF) Diagnostic Plots in Regression Analysis
Author: George C. J. Fernandez, University of Nevada-Reno

(PDF) Analysis of Time Series Data – An Application in Health Care
Author: Sujaya Parthasarathy, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) Implementation of Benefit Capitation Algorithm for Managed Health Care
Authors: Zhirong Mao, Blue Cross of California; Yuejing XU, Q & L Consulting

(PDF) Economic Development and Women’s Social Status: A SAS Analysis
Author: Seid M. Zekavat, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) A Fast and Robust Method for Pattern Matching in Time Series Databases
Author: Eamonn Keogh, University of California – Irvine

(PDF) Factors Influencing Life Expectancy: Using SAS Regression Procedures in a Multi-Country Study
Author: Kamal Shoukry, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) Logistic Regression Modeling in Complex Surveys: Examples Using LOGITSE SAS Macro
Authors: Jesse A. Canchola, University of California – San Francisco; Brian D. Marx, Lousiana State University; Joseph A. Catania, University of California – San Francisco

(PDF) Analysis of Designed Experiments Using SAS PROC GENMOD
Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State Unversity; Connie M. Borror, Arizona State Unversity; Sharon L. Lewis, Arizona State Unversity

(PDF) Testing Homogeneity of Variance
Author: Shuqiang Zhang, University of Hawaii

(PDF) Cross-Validation Estimates of the Prediction Error in a Random-Coefficients Mixed Model Used to Estimate Emissions from On-Road Motor Vehicles using SAS
Author: Steven Brisby, California Air Resources Board

(PDF) Repeated Measures Analysis on Preservice Teachers’ Attitudes Towards the Subjects Taught in School
Authors: Leping Liu, University of Nevada-Reno; George C. J. Fernandez, University of Nevada-Reno

(PDF) The Sums of Squares Are All the Same – How Can the LSMEANS Be So Different?
Authors: Lori Potter, Technology Assessment Group Inc.; David J. Pasta, Technology Assessment Group Inc.

(PDF) Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to Assess Health Care Claims Risk
Author: Zhirong Mao, Blue Cross of California

(PDF) Reliability Analysis in the SAS System
Authors: Donna O. Fulenwider, SAS; Gordon Johnston, SAS

(PDF) Career Insurance For the 21st Century
Author: Arnold Goodman, University of California – Irvine

(PDF) Exploring Ways to Compare Eight Diverse Hospitals
Author: Anthony M. Dymond, Dymond and Associates, LLC

(PDF) California Income Distribution: Using SAS Software to Estimate County Level GINI Coefficients
Author: Daric Brummett, Pyramid Research

(PDF) Confirmatory Factor Analysis Using PROC CALIS
Authors: Diana D. Suhr, University of Northern Colorado; James Keaton, University of Northern Colorado; Lynne Kelly, University of Hartford; Cynthia Finch, Pennsylvania State University

(PDF) Presentation of Simple Statistics Using Multiple BY-Variables
Author: Kathryn A. Vald s, SRI International

(PDF) Some Applications of Data Mining Tools in Database Marketing
Author: Jianmin Liu, Golden Gate University

Data Visualization and Presentation

(PDF) Creating Fully Indexed and Searchable Electronic Documents From SAS Output
Author: Clark M. Roberts, Decision Analytics

(PDF) Visualization and Presentation of Hospital Treatment System Data
Author: Paul A. Choate, California Department of Mental Health

(PDF) Techniques for Producing Publication Quality SAS Output: With Examples From the Pharmaceutical Industry
Author: Clark M. Roberts, Decision Analytics

(PDF) SAS/SPECTRAVIEW Software and Data Mining: A Case Study
Authors: Stuart A. Nisbet, SAS; Ronald E. Stogner, SAS; Aaron Hill, SAS

(PDF) You Want Me to Put HOW MANY Numbers in this Document?
Author: Cynthia L. Williamson, Technology Assessment Group Inc.

Data Warehousing and Database Management

(PDF) A General System for Custom Conversion of dBase Data into SAS
Author: Mel Widawski, University of California – Los Angeles

(PDF) Flying Between MS-Excel and SAS Data Sets
Authors: Su-Ting Luo, Lifeguard, Inc.; Edward Wei-Tarng Lee, Statistical Engineering International

(PDF) Desing of the Clinical Data Portion of a CANDA to Facilitate Review by CDER
Author: Kay Obenshain, SAS

(PDF) The Use of Central Analysis File or Patient File in the Analysis and Management of Clinical Trials Data
Author: Ajit Gemunu de Silva, IBAH Clinical Services

(PDF) Using SAS as a Clinical Data Repository
Author: Carl R. Haske, Statprobe, Inc.

(PDF) Cost and Benefits of Indexes in Large SAS Data Sets
Author: Daniel J. Leprince, Matrix Pharmaceutical, Inc.

(PDF) W-O-W Data Warehouse, SAS/OR and the WEB: A Decision Support System (DSS), Using a Data Warehouse Designed for Project Management and Optimized for SAS/OR, Distributed on the WWW
Author: Art Rerecich, Lockheed Martin

(PDF) SAS/Warehouse Adminstrator Usage and Enhancements
Authors: Tony Fisher, SAS; Terry L. Lewis, SAS

(PDF) Constructing a Data Warehouse
Author: Curtis A. Smith, Defense Contract Audit Agency

(PDF) Telecommunications: A Vertical Data Warehouse Model
Author: Larry D. Bramblett, Data Warehouse Solutions, LLC

Formal Online Demos

(PDF) OLAP: The Second Generation of Tools
Author: Steve Clark, SAS

(PDF) SAS/IntrNet Software: Extending the SAS System to the Web
Author: Donald J. Henderson, SAS

(PDF) Enterprise Reporter: Exploiting Key Answers From Your Data Warehouse
Author: Donna Torrence, SAS

(PDF) The SAS Data Mining Solution for Business Users
Author: Anwar El-Jawhari, SAS

(PDF) Data Analysis with the Analyst Application
Author: Donna O. Fulenwider, SAS

(PDF) Multideminsional Data Visualization Tools
Author: Stuart A. Nisbet, SAS

(PDF) The New ADX Interface for Design and Analysis of Experiments
Author: Donna O. Fulenwider, SAS

(PDF) SAS/Warehouse Adminstrator Software
Author: Tony Fisher, SAS

(PDF) IT Service Vision: Evaluating Information Technology Services
Author: Gail Ridley, SAS

(PDF) Using Data Form and Data Table to Access Enterprise Data
Author: Steve Clark, SAS

(PDF) Windows and the SAS System, Release 6.12
Author: Russ Robison, SAS

Internet, Intranets, and the Web

(PDF) How SAS Users Can Benefit from the Internet
Authors: Helen D. Carey, Independent Consultant; Ginger Carey, University of Hawaii

(PDF) Data Collection: An Internet Based Approach
Author: Aradhana Gokul Janga, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) How to Use the SAS ODBC Driver to Mine Your Data Warehouse via the World Wide Web
Authors: Marvyn M. Lindsey, California State University; Charles Edwin Shipp, Millenium Technologies Institute, Inc.

(PDF) Monitoring SAS through the Web
Author: Sy J. Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.

(PDF) Developing a PC-SAS World Wide Web Database System
Author: Faith Renee Sloan, FRS Associates

(PDF) Creating Linked Web Pages for SAS Format Documentation
Author: Jack F. Hamilton, HealthCare COMPARE Corporation

(PDF) Tech Support Services on the WWW
Author: Joy Reel, SAS

(PDF) Developing Cross-Platform IntraNet Applications on UNIX
Author: M. Kumar Sagar, The Sagar Group

(PDF) The Social Science Database Archive (SSDBA) Moves to the World Wide Web
Authors: Stuart E. Wugalter, California State University – Los Angeles; Jeannie Lum, California State University – Los Angeles; Colin Campbell, California State University – Los Angeles; Alan Wang, California State University – Los Angeles; Desemona Carddoza, California State University – Los Angeles

(PDF) Web Data Distribution – Moving Beyond Static Pages: The Web Empowerment of Decision Makers
Authors: Art Rerecich, Lockheed Martin; Deanna Castorena, Lockheed Martin

(PDF) Exploiting SAS Software Using JAVA Technology
Authors: Donald J. Henderson, SAS; Barbara Walters, SAS

Keynote Address

(PDF) The SAS/IntrNet Dispatcher
Author: Donald J. Henderson, SAS

Operating Environments

(PDF) Data Libraries on Tape
Author: Curtis A. Smith, Defense Contract Audit Agency

(PDF) Methods of Finding a Small Group of Records in Two Million Without Using Merge
Author: Lynn G. Palmer, California Department of Health Services

(PDF) Taking Advantage of the SAS System on Windows NT
Author: Mark W. Cates, SAS

(PDF) Submitting Batch SAS Jobs under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95
Author: Jodie M. Gilmore, Freelance Technical Writer

(PDF) Exploiting SAS to Work With Other Software: Paradox Database Programs to Write SAS Code and WordPerfect Macros to Clean Up SAS Output
Authors: Cecilie Birner, Kaiser Permanente; Kathleen Martin, Kaiser Permanente; Gary Sulyer, Kaiser Permanente

Posters

(PDF) Analysis of Student Minimum Wage Perception Using the SAS System
Authors: Maria Lizet Arellano, Loyola Marymount University; Pedro Mercado, Loyola Marymount University; John F. Killeen, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) A SAS Macro for an Endogenous Feedback Model to Study Contextual Analysis
Authors: Chih-Ping Chou, University of Southern California; Dongyun Yang, University of Southern California

(PDF) Using SAS Multivariate Procedures to Estimate Human Development Indicators: The Case of Education and Human Development
Author: Joseph E. Earley, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) Investigating Gender Empowerment: A SAS/STAT Application
Author: J. Richard Earley, The American College

(PDF) A Microcomputer Program (SF-36.EXE) that Generates SAS Code for Scoring the SF-36 Health Survey
Authors: Ron D. Hayes, University of California – Los Angeles; Cathy D. Sherbourne, RAND Corporation; Karen L. Spritzer, RAND Corporation; Wil J. Dixon, Dixon Associates

(PDF) Year 2000 Solutions
Authors: Kirk Paul Lafler, Millenium Technologies Institute, Inc.; Sunil Kumar Gupta, Millenium Technologies Institute, Inc.; Charles Edwin Shipp, Millenium Technologies Institute, Inc.

(PDF) Retrieving Weather Data from the Internet and Analyzing Using the SAS System
Author: Richard D. Langston, SAS

(PDF) Estimation of Shelf-Life and the Minimum Effective Dose Using PROC MIXED
Author: Louis Munyakazi, Amgen

Tutorials

(PDF) Efficiency Ideas for Large Files
Authors: Juliana Mei-Mei Ma, Quintiles; Andrew H. Karp, Sierra Information Services Inc.

(PDF) Basics of Using SAS with the World Wide Web
Authors: Marvyn M. Lindsey, California State University; Charles Edwin Shipp, Millenium Technologies Institute, Inc.

(PDF) Ten Great Reasons to Learn SAS Software’s SQL Procedure
Author: Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation

(PDF) Working with SAS Date and Time Functions
Author: Andrew H. Karp, Sierra Information Services Inc.

(PDF) Managing Large Health Insurance Claims-Based Files: Tricks and Techniques
Authors: Miriam G. Cisternas, Technology Assessment Group Inc.; Marcia Stoddard, Technology Assessment Group Inc.

(PDF) An Introduction to SAS/FSP Software
Authors: Terry J. Fain, Loyola Marymount University; Cyndie B. Gareleck, RAND Corporation

(PDF) Becoming a SAS Master
Authors: Ginger Carey, University of Hawaii; Helen D. Carey, Independent Consultant

(PDF) Advanced Macro Topics: Utilities and Examples
Author: Arthur L. Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants

(PDF) Statistics for Non-Statisticians Using SAS
Author: Shuqiang Zhang, University of Hawaii

(PDF) The SAS Multidimensional Database and Its Uses in Application Development
Author: Bill Powers, SAS