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Barchart with Graph Template Language
Yang, You may want to see this paper by Susan Swartz: http://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/papers/sgf2009/174-2009.pdf In the paper, she shows how to use SG procedures to create different types of group bar charts. You can get the GTL, generated for the PROCs, by adding TMPLOUT=FILENAME to the PROC... 20 Nov 2009 16:49

Multilevel modeling in proc mixed
Hi all. Please don't laugh at me if my questions seem easy to you as I'm a novice in multilevel modeling and been doing heaps of readings about it but unfortunately the more I read the more I don't understand. I'm currently trying to fit a 3-level multilevel model in PROC MIXED with DDFM=SATTERTH and MEHOD=REML ... 25 Nov 2009 00:31

Import data from Excel
Sophia, I didn't take the time to see what you'd have to do regarding the macro but, unless someone else has a better idea, I would simply import the date with one import, the other variables with a 2nd import, transpose the two files, then merge them together with no by statement. E.g.: PROC IMPORT OUT= WORK... 20 Nov 2009 14:34

PROC NLP Warning
Hello all, =20 I'm estimating parameters using the log likelihood of a gamma -gamma mixture model using NLP. =20 =20 I'm getting the following warning in the log: =20 =20 NOTE: Your code contains 1 program statements. NOTE: Gradient is computed using analytic formulas. NOTE: Hessian is com... 19 Nov 2009 16:20

book: Clean Code
Geez Ron while I am all for buying these types of books and as you know I have many of the CS tombs. $70 something dollars is a bit steep for something like this. Are these people that stupid or desperate...... Toby Dunn On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:43 -0500, Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI) <rjf2(a)CDC.GOV> w... 18 Nov 2009 12:19

Log Size in Windows
Is there a setting that determines how large a log file can get in Windows before you get that dialog box asking to save the log or clear it? I've noticed that the same job can run on UNIX without generating that message. Thanks. ... 18 Nov 2009 11:10

SAS on Mainframe
Hello SAS_L, In order to use SAS on mainframe, what are the most basic knowledge of z/OS which someone should have? Appreciate if you can recommend some learning material to let mainframe newbie ramp up quickly. Thanks in advance! Kevin ... 6 Dec 2009 20:34

DDE Page.Setup
Trying to use DDE to format an Excel spreadsheet and want to select the option in scaling "Fit to: 1 page(s) wide by ' ' tall" using Page.setup. This is my current code without an option selected for scaling: [Page.Setup(" "," ", 0.75,0.75,1,1,False,False,True,False,1,1)] ... 17 Nov 2009 19:43

Unix Command - cp -p
I used to use =E2=80=9Ccp =E2=80=93p xx.sas xx2.sas=E2=80=9D on Unix to cop= y file and preserve the original file data and time (e.g., Oct=C2=A0 7 15:5= 6). But the code does not work any more on Unix at my new company. =0AAppre= ciate your help.=0A=C2=A0=0AKevin=0A=0A=0A ... 17 Nov 2009 15:10

PROC MIXED covariance specification question
Hi SAS-L. I have a pretty basic question pertaining to model specification. I'm running a simple linear model in PROC MIXED with fixed effects and repeated measures. I know there's autocorrelation in the data, so I specified TYPE=AR(1) covariance in the REPEATED statement. I got the following in my output: ... 17 Nov 2009 14:02