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Re: SPSS vs SAS 0 166 (3/5/2010 8:43:25 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas When I left UCLA after my post doc in 1987, the statistical computer consultants threw a going away party for me and at that party I asked the question "What is the advantage of SAS over SPSS?" The room went... dfisher

Re: proc factor with missing data? #2 0 274 (3/3/2010 9:43:20 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Peter, Thank you very much. Dennis Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.D. Professor and Director Center for Behavioral Research and Services California State University, Long Beach 1090 Atlantic Avenue Long Beach, C... dfisher

Re: proc factor with missing data? 0 125 (3/3/2010 9:00:06 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Dale, Thank you very much. We will try these approaches and see what happens. Dennis Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.D. Professor and Director Center for Behavioral Research and Services California State Universi... dfisher

proc factor with missing data? 0 161 (3/3/2010 7:34:07 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Does anyone know how to run an exploratory factor analysis presumably with PROC FACTOR that is able to deal with missing data? Is it possible to have output from PROC MI be read into PROC FACTOR? Or some ot... dfisher

Re: Proc Plan? #4 0 18 (2/16/2010 12:24:55 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Art, I guess we are lucky that we are only proposing to randomize 1200 subjects and not 120000. Thanks. Dennis Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.D. Professor and Director Center for Behavioral Research and Services Califo... dfisher

Re: Proc Plan? #2 0 21 (2/15/2010 11:52:47 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Data_null, Thank you very much. We can definitely work with this. You randomized within blocks of 12 which may be a better way to do it than the way we were thinking of. In your way, we would always have exa... dfisher

Proc Plan? 0 34 (2/15/2010 10:47:19 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I need to run PROC PLAN on something that is more simple than any of the examples but right now we cannot get it to do what we want. We have 1200 subjects that we are trying to randomly assign to one of 12 dif... dfisher

Re: ROC curves 0 22 (2/9/2010 5:32:01 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Nuria, You ask a good question. We have had a similar problem and had to do this in a brute force method. What we have found helpful is a macro that was a poster at the SUGI in San Antonio that was done by pe... dfisher

Re: Importing CDC files with SAS 0 23 (1/27/2010 5:07:32 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas It looks like you are trying to import either SPSS or STATA files. You would have an easier time if you just got the SAS files from CDC instead of trying to reconvert them back into SAS. HTH DGF Dennis G. Fi... dfisher

Re: real p values from ttest 0 122 (1/20/2010 8:57:01 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas There may be some confusion with the new edition of the American Psychological Association Publication Manual. However, if you read it carefully it says "When reporting p values, report exact p values (e.g., p... dfisher

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A powerpoint slide show comparing R with SAS and SPSS 7 23 (7/2/2008 2:25:08 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas http://www.matthewckeller.com/Lecture1.ppt ... rolandberry (1872)

APA Citation of SAS Help 1 22 (7/16/2008 1:47:39 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi all, I would like to cite several sections of the SAS Help. Can someone provide an example of how to cite SAS Help (both inline and reference). Also, if I want to cite several different pages, do I add a se... crisgugiu (90)

Anyone running CITRIX/RDC to access SAS from a Server? 1 22 (9/19/2008 3:59:09 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas This is a question for those who access SAS 9.1/9.2 from a server. What sort of interface are you guys using? Citrix/Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection/Terminal Services ? How has your experience been? Is the... gjman (60)

Design of experiments 2 22 (9/23/2008 1:34:14 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I am looking for recommendation for texts on the subject of design of experiments, with particular emphasis on variance (statistics). Of some of the choices I have consider: Box's very early text ($) Kempthor... citam.sasl (448)

Boundaries calculation for interim analyses 1 26 (9/30/2008 12:58:01 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Do somebody knows about a macro available for SAS version 9.1.3 (without IML ) for the calculation of boundaries for interim analysis (stopping ruls for futility or effeicacy)? Thanks Gabrielle ... gabrielle.boissard (11)

A professor does not submit a reference letter when he said he will - PLEASE ADVISE 3 29 (1/6/2009 8:29:45 AM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hello All.. I am a PhD student in Computer Networks at a university in the US. I am applying for summer 2009 internships. I asked one of the professors under whom I took a course for a reference recently. He s... eth001 (1)

convert SPSS file to text 1 24 (1/13/2009 12:32:21 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Good morning, =20 Can anyone out there help me convert an SPSS file to anything but an SPSS file? A text file, SAS dataset, Access table... I would greatly appreciate the help. They are very small files so... Mike.Tonkovich (30)

Can PC/SAS be installed on Windows Server 2003? 3 19 (4/17/2009 8:40:42 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas Hi there, Anyone know if one can install PC/SAS on a Windows Server 2003? Thanks Ya ... ya.huang (1962)

Agreement Measures 1 21 (11/5/2009 5:04:47 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas I have what I think is an easy problem....but I am not sure how to proceed. We have a characteristic on a customer - their address. We don't know how good the addresses that we have for them are but can not aff... b_miner (61)

Data Validation/Cleansing Tool Query 5 195 (1/4/2010 8:43:29 PM) comp.soft-sys.sas We are currently using SAS to do validation. We write programs to check things like ranges, all fields present, etc., etc.. Since this is a clinical trials environment it is also necessary to check across r... jgoldberg (119)