WUSS 2001 Conference Proceedings

San Francisco, California
September 5-7, 2001

Applications Development

(PDF) Delivering Information to the People Who Need to Know
Authors: Gail Kramer, SAS; Chris J. Hemedinger, SAS

(PDF) V6 to V8 Applications: To Web or Not to Web?
Authors: Sharon Muha, SAS; Elizabeth Malcom, SAS

(PDF) Using Table Viewer and Form Viewer Control in SAS/AF
Author: Steven A. Wilson, MAJARO InfoSystems Inc.

(PDF) A Beginning Application with Data Entry, Management, Analysis, and Presentation Using SAS/IntrNet & ODS
Authors: Stephen Siler, First Health; Ken Moody, First Health

(PDF) A Method to Import, Process, and Export Arbritrary XML Files with SAS
Authors: Michael C. Palmer, Zurich Biostatistics, Inc.; Cecilia A. Hale, Zurich Biostatistics, Inc.

(PDF) Adventures in RTP Output: ODS with a Little PROC TEMPLATE
Author: Anita Rocha, Cell Therapeutics, Inc.

(PDF) An Interactive VBA/SAS Application
Authors: Scott Hanson, Household International; Seva Kumar, Household International

(PDF) Building a GUI for Your Datamart Using SAS/AF Version 8.1
Author: Soora Wi, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) Computer-Aided SAS Programming: How to Use ComplementSoft’s ASAP to Visualize the Data Flow and Program Flow of Any SAS Program
Author: Fen Hiew, ComplementSoft LLC

(PDF) Deconstructing SAS Jobs: How to Perform a Legacy Code Autopsy
Author: Charles vanWynbergen, SunTrust Banks Inc.

(PDF) Function’al Macros
Author: Carol Mingst, SBC Services, Inc.

(PDF) Fuzzy Matching and Its Applications
Authors: Dale Hall, OptiScan Biomedical Corporation; Raymond Wan, Raymond Wan & Associates, Inc.

(PDF) Programming Tricks for Reducing Storage and Work Space
Author: Curtis A. Smith, Defense Contract Audit Agency

(PDF) U. S. Census Bureau Goes OLAP
Authors: Hung X. Phan, U. S. Census Bureau; Lori A. Guido, U. S. Census Bureau; Richard A. Denby, U. S. Census Bureau

(PDF) Using New SAS Features Meeting Requirements for Submission in Electronic Format
Author: Karen Walker, Walker Consulting

(PDF) Using SAS for Mining Indirect Associations in Data
Authors: Pang-Ning Tan, University of Minnesota; Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota; Harumi Kuno, Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Coders’ Corner

(PDF) How Paul Bunyan Cleared the Log Jam: Creating a Useful Table from Information within Log Files
Author: Beth Worrall, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) Make Your Life a Little Easier: A Collection of SAS Macro Utilities
Author: Peter J. Lund, Northwest Crime and Social Research

(PDF) Using SAS Explorer to View File Properties and Catalog Contents
Author: Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation

(PDF) A Macro Utility for Generating Formatted Log Comments
Author: Peter J. Lund, Northwest Crime and Social Research

(PDF) Calculating the Error Rate: The Case of the Quality Assurance Audit
Author: Edem Kuevor, The Lewin Group

(PDF) It’s not my fault – but I fixed it anyway: From legacy data all over the placeto a consistent, automated analysis system
Author: AnnMaria Rousey, The MedStat Group

(PDF) Making a Mountain into a Molehill in a Mainframe Environment Using Multi-Step Processing and other Masterly Maneuvers
Author: Tracee Matlock, Department of Defense

(PDF) The INPUT Statement: What It Can Do for You
Author: David Fickbohm, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company

(PDF) Using SAS V8 to Modify Microsoft EXCEL Spreadsheets
Author: Michael J. Yee, The Lewin Group

(PDF) What’s Your _TYPE_? Finding the CLASS You Want in PROC SUMMARY
Author: Frank A. Ferriola, Jr., Trilogy Consulting Corporation

Data Analysis and Statistics

(PDF) 2001: A SAS/STAT Odyssey
Author: Maura E. Stokes, SAS

(PDF) Advanced Tutorial on Logistic Regression
Author: Maura E. Stokes, SAS

(PDF) How to Visualize Your Data Distribution
Author: Robert N. Rodriguez, SAS

(PDF) The New Power and Sample Size Application
Author: Randall D. Tobias, SAS

(PDF) The Output Delivery System for Data Analysis
Author: Randall D. Tobias, SAS

(PDF) Discriminant Analysis: A Powerful Classification Technique in Data Mining
Author: George C. J. Fernandez, University of Nevada-Reno

(PDF) Using SAS Enterprise Miner for Forecasting Response and Risk
Author: Kattamuri S. Sarma

(PDF) Using SAS Functions for Power Analysis and Sample Size Estimation
Author: Mel Widawski, University of California – Los Angeles

(PDF) Computation of expected risk rations in a longitudinal study of sexually transmitted diseases in per-contact risk of HIV using SAS/IML
Authors: Jesse A. Canchola, University of California – San Francisco; Sally Blower, University of California – Los Angeles

(PDF) Considerations for Multi-Platform Data Analysis and Delivery
Author: Paul A. Choate, California Department of Development Services

(PDF) Data Analysis on the Components of Multimedia Courseware Design
Author: Leping Liu, Towson University

(PDF) Detecting Anomalies in Your Data Using Benford’s Law
Author: Curtis A. Smith, Defense Contract Audit Agency

(PDF) Estimating and Interpreting Ordered Regression Models using PROC PRINT
Author: Kenneth Fernandez, University of California – Riverside

(PDF) Factor Analysis of Categorical Data in SAS
Authors: Lei Han, University of California – San Francisco; Torsten B. Neilands, University of California – San Francisco; Margaret Docini, University of California – San Francisco

(PDF) Genetic Algorithm Using SAS/IML
Authors: David D. Steenhard, Lexis-Nexis; Nan-Ting Chou, University of Louisville

(PDF) How Using Arrays and Formats Allowed Me to Draw 16,000 Random Samples of Specific N without Sorting (and save my hard disk and sanity, too)
Author: Miriam G. Cisternas, MGC Data Services

(PDF) Investigating Modern Vietnam with SAS Statistical Procedures
Author: Minh Tran, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) Macros for Euclidean Distances
Author: Robert O. Bernstein, California Department of Education

(PDF) Making EXCEL Graphs from PROC LIFETEST Output
Author: William N. Anderson, Edwards Lifesciences LLC

(PDF) Mining the Touch Point Data and the Acquistion Strategy of CRM
Author: Aaron Lai, Charles Schwab and Co.

(PDF) Patterns of Infectious Diarrhea Peaks in Southern California: Illustration of a Method to Determine Geographical Pathways
Authors: Raoul Burchette, Kaiser Permanente; Chris Conteas, Kaiser Permanente; Jatinder Pruthi, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) PROC GLM or PROC CALIS
Author: Diana D. Suhr, University of Northern Colorado

(PDF) Profiling Serial Killers
Author: Karl Glaser, Roche Colorado Corporation Technical Center

(PDF) SAS Direct (Kronecker) Product Techniques Applied to Design Matrices in a Two-Way Cross Classification Balanced Model Example
Author: Steven Hoff, University of Northern Colorado

(PDF) Use of Neural Network in Evaluating Nomograms for Disease Recurrence after Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer
Authors: Yu-Ping Li, University of California – San Francisco; John Ye, University of California – San Francisco; Deborah Lubeck, University of California – San Francisco

(PDF) Using SAS to Assess Students’ Learning in Instructional Technology Courses
Author: Leping Liu, Towson University

(PDF) Web Log Data Cleansing and Dynamic Excel Reporting
Author: Kunling Lu, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) What about a PROC RATES for All of Your Rates and Proportions Needs?
Authors: Tyler C. Smith, Naval Research Center; Besa Smith, Naval Research Center; Margaret AK Ryan, Naval Research Center

Data Warehousing and Database Management

(PDF) Data Quality – Spinning Straw into Gold
Author: Bob Brauer, Dataflux

(PDF) Library and File Management: Building a Dynamic Application
Authors: Arthur L. Carpenter, Data Explorations; Richard O. Smith, Data Explorations

(PDF) Scalable Methods for the Quality Control of Patient Data
Author: Michael J. Yee, The Lewin Group

(PDF) Version 9: Scaling the Future
Authors: Diane Olson, SAS; Robert Ray, SAS

(PDF) A Sort of a Mess-Sorting Large Datasets on Multiple Keys
Author: David L. Cassell, CSC Corp.

(PDF) Clean Your Data with PROC SQL
Author: Ann Olmsted, Matrix Pharmaceutical, Inc.

(PDF) CONCAT.SAS: A Macro for Concatenation of Grouped Multi-Record Narrative Text
Author: Roy Henrichs, S.F. Bay Area Rapid Transit District

(PDF) Integrating SAS and OMR Data Scanning Technology to Improve Efficiency with Database Management
Author: Peter H. Coulson, Portland State University

(PDF) Making a Data Code Dictionary Using A Dynamic SAS Macro
Authors: Jichao Sun, University of California – San Diego; Haiping Luo, Department of Veteran Affairs

(PDF) Matching 1990 and 2000 Census Data
Author: Richard O’Reilly, Los Angeles Times

(PDF) SAS Macro, ODS, and HTML: Summarizing 400 Pages of Output into One Nice Table
Author: Michelle L. Pritchard, The Lewin Group

(PDF) Utilizing SAS Formats Effectively
Author: Lang-Feng Tsai, Edwards Lifesciences LLC

Hands-On Workshops

(PDF) Advanced Macro Processing
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Advanced SQL Processing
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Basic Macro Processing
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Basic SQL Processing
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Interactive Report Generation
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Version 8 ODS (Output Delivery System)
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Web Publishing in SAS System
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

(PDF) Who Needs to Know Program Syntax when You Have Enterprise Guide
Author: DESTINY_CORP, Destiny Corporation

Internet, Intranets, and the Web

(PDF) How to Create Dynamic HTML and Javascript using your Data
Author: Jennifer R. Sinodis, Bank One

(PDF) HTML for the SAS Programmer
Author: Lauren E. Haworth, Genentech Inc.

(PDF) The New Look of V9 Web Graphics
Authors: Himesh Patel, SAS; Frank Wimmer, SAS

(PDF) A Perl Primer for SAS Programmers
Author: David L. Cassell, CSC Corp.

(PDF) Advance Uses of SAS/IntrNet and MRV for Delivering Decision Support Reports to the Web
Author: Dan J. Kirpes, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company

(PDF) Ask DSS
Author: Karen L. Wyland, Sodexho Marriott Services

(PDF) Building an Automated Data Management, Analysis, and Reporting Tool that Runs against Pre-Processed Web Server Access Log File Data
Author: Nick P szty, Organic Inc.

(PDF) From Spreadsheet to SAS Using the Web Environment
Author: Daryl B. Baird, Trilogy Consulting Corporation

(PDF) Internet Circulation Block Methods
Author: Charles F. Sprague, Telework Management Consultants

(PDF) Output Delivery Goes Web
Author: Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation

(PDF) Sinking the Big Hole: Using SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher Version 8 Features to Drill Down to the Depths of Your Data
Author: Thomas Kunselman, Pinnacle Solutions, Inc.

(PDF) Using PROC SUMMARY and PROC PRINT to Create Dynamic HTML Drillable Reports
Author: Dan J. Kirpes, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company

(PDF) Web-Enabling a Client/Server OLAP Application Using SAS/IntrNet’s MDDB Report Viewer
Authors: Mary Federico Katz, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company; Bob Rood, Qualex Consulting Services, Inc.

(PDF) Web Enabling Your Graphs with HTML, ActiveX and JAVA Using SAS/GRAPH and the Output Delivery System
Author: Curtis A. Smith, Defense Contract Audit Agency

Keynote Address

(PDF) SAS – Still Relevant after All These Years?
Author: Paul Kent, SAS

Outliers

(PDF) Intelligent Agents and Applications in Enterprise Computing
Author: Anthony M. Dymond, Dymond and Associates, LLC

(PDF) ODS for PRINT, REPORT, and TABULATE
Author: Lauren E. Haworth, Genentech Inc.

(PDF) The Changing Face of SAS Institute
Author: Mark Smith, Full Circle Strategies

(PDF) Ten Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became an Independent SAS Software Consultant
Author: Andrew H. Karp, Sierra Information Services Inc.

(PDF) Using Graph-N-Go with ODS to Easily Present Your Data and Web-enabled Your Graphs
Author: Curtis A. Smith, Defense Contract Audit Agency

(PDF) Interactive Three Dimensional Grpahical Presentation of Analysis of Variation Results
Authors: Paul Kostenick, Boeing Commercial Aircraft; Kenneth Lulay, University of Portland

(PDF) Introducing Attitudinal Data into Your Mix: Integrating Attitudinal and Transactional Data to Better Understand Your Customer Relationships
Author: Margaret Coles, MarketTools, Inc.

(PDF) Performing an Installation Qualification for the SAS System
Author: David Eber, Pharmacyclics, Inc.

(PDF) SAS Consulting: New Beginnings
Authors: Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation; Charles Edwin Shipp, Shipp Consulting

Posters

(PDF) Consider SAS Consulting
Authors: Charles Edwin Shipp, Shipp Consulting; Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation

(PDF) Creating SAS/GRAPH Visual Output from MS Excel
Author: Karen M. Schlangen, Naval Health Research Center

(PDF) %MACRO SKIP: My Favorite SAS Trick
Author: Diana D. Suhr, University of Northern Colorado

(PDF) A Dichotomous Logistic Regression Model for Predictors of Adenovirus Infection among Military Trainees
Authors: Linda Wang, Naval Health Research Center; Anthony W. Hawksworth, Naval Health Research Center; Gregory Gray, Naval Health Research Center

(PDF) A Macro for Calculating and Displaying Smoking Prevalence and Confidence Intervals
Author: Brett Holbrook, Public Health Institute

(PDF) Automatically Creating a Summary Table from Multiple Outcomes by a SAS Program
Authors: Han Wu, Los Angeles County; Ying Chen, Kaiser Permanente

(PDF) Bull or Bear? An Econometric Analysis of The Stock Market
Author: Jia L. Wang, Cox Communication

(PDF) Comparing Macros to Arrays to Simple Code for Input Statements: A Visual Display for the Novice Programmer
Author: Lara Jungvig-Hilton, RAND Corporation

(PDF) Detecting Seasonality in Univariate Time Series Data Using the SAS System
Authors: Joseph E. Earley, Loyola Marymount University; Seid M. Zekavat, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) Gold, Black Gold, Steel, and World Inflation: A SAS Study
Author: Kamal Shoukry, Loyola Marymount University

(PDF) Graphical Depiction of Bias when Using the Probability Plot Method for Cencored Data
Author: Randall Boan, Aims Community College

(PDF) Keeping it All Together: An Efficient Project Organization Strategy for the Beginning Programmer
Author: Elizabeth A. Roth, RAND Corporation

(PDF) One for All and All from One! Generating Multiple Bar Graphs from a Single GCHART Procedure
Author: Grace Conn, Banner Health Systems

(PDF) Quantifying Audience Theatre Preferences Using SAS Statistical Procedures
Author: James D. Ryan, Emporia State University

Tutorials

(PDF) A Beginners Guide to SAS Date and Time Handling
Author: Wayne B. Finley, Penultimate Systems

(PDF) A Survival Analysis from the Ground Up, Using Cox Proportional Hazards Modeling
Authors: Tyler C. Smith, Naval Health Research Center; Besa Smith, Naval Health Research Center; Margaret AK Ryan, Naval Health Research Center

(PDF) Beyond HTML: Using the SAS System Version 8.2 with HTML and XML
Author: Frederick E. Pratter, University of Montana

(PDF) Building and Using Macro Libraries
Author: Arthur L. Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants

(PDF) Changes and Enhancements to PROCs MEANS and SUMMARY in Version 8 of the SAS System
Author: Andrew H. Karp, Sierra Information Services Inc.

(PDF) Designing the Power to Know: Effective Strategies for Managing and Analyzing Experimental Data
Author: Robert N. Rodriguez, SAS

(PDF) Is Your Data Clean? Three Steps in Data Cleaning
Author: Mel Widawski, University of California – Los Angeles

(PDF) Mouse Clicking Your Way Viewing and Manipulating Data with Version 8 of the SAS System
Authors: Cyndie B. Gareleck, RAND Corporation; Terry J. Fain, RAND Corporation

(PDF) My Favorite Functions: Using the SAS Macro Language to Create User-Written Functions
Author: Peter J. Lund, Northwest Crime and Social Research

(PDF) ODS for Reporting with Style
Authors: Susan J. Slaughter, Avocet Solutions; Lora D. Delwiche, University of California – Davis

(PDF) ODS Tips & Tricks
Author: Lauren E. Haworth, Genentech Inc.

(PDF) Table Lookups: From IF-THEN to Key-Indexing
Author: Arthur L. Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants

(PDF) Using Styles and Templates to Customize SAS ODS Output
Author: Sunil Kumar Gupta, Gupta Programming