Below is the list of contributed papers which will be presented at the 2011 SCSUG Educational Forum. The entire paper will be available shortly after the Forum in November.
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(Available papers are highlighted in blue. If a paper is unavailable, the title appears with a light blue font.)
Author | Title | Session |
Pardha Repalli | Prediction on Diabetes Using Data Mining Approach | Reporting and Statistics |
Cecil Hallum | SAS-Implementations Supporting Satellite, Aircraft, and Drone-based Remote Sensing Endeavors and Their Influences in the Classroom | Application Development |
Manoj Immadi | Kass Adjustments in Decision Trees on Binary/Interval Target Variable | Reporting and Statistics |
Chris Schacherer | The FILENAME Statement: Interacting with the World Outside of SAS® | Beyond the Basics |
Chris Schacherer | Take a Fresh Look at SAS® Enterprise Guide®: From point-and-click ad hocs to robust enterprise solutions | Application Development |
Jose F Garcia-Mazcorro | Statistical comparison of relative proportions of bacterial genetic sequences | Reporting and Statistics |
Julie VanBuskirk | Traffic Lighting: The Next Generation | Beyond the Basics |
Dan Strickland | Using a Free Microsoft tool to help manage your EBI SAS server | Application Development |
Art Carpenter | The MEANS/SUMMARY Procedure: Doing More | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Zubair Shaik | Exploring trends in topics via Text Mining SUGI/Global Forum proceedings abstracts | Application Development |
Art Carpenter | PROC TABULATE: Getting Started | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Art Carpenter | Protecting Macros and Macro Variables: It Is All About Control | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Patricia Hettinger | You Can’t Get There From Here If You Don’t Know Where Here Is. Improving the SAS Enterprise Guide Data Characterization Task | Beyond the Basics |
Patricia Hettinger | At Random – Sampling with PROC SURVEYSELECT | Beyond the Basics |
Patricia Hettinger | The Way of the Semicolon or Three Things I Wish I Had Known Before I Ever Keyed One | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Yogen Shah | Use of Cutoff and SAS Code node in SAS® Enterprise Miner to determine appropriate probability cutoff point for decision making with binary target models | Reporting and Statistics |
Huanying Qin | A SAS Macro Tool for Selecting Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Data | Reporting and Statistics |
Andrew Kuligowski | Looking Beneath the Surface of Sorting | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Jeremy Poling | Can’t Decide Whether to Use a DATA Step or PROC SQL? You Can Have It Both Ways with the SQL Function! | Beyond the Basics |
Alejandro Farias | SAS® Information Studio – Map Your Way Through the Data | Application Development |
Jimmy DeFoor | Reading and Processing Mystery Data Sets | Potpourri |
Josie Brunner | When It's Not Random Chance: Creating Propensity Scores Using SAS EG | Reporting and Statistics |
Jeanina Worden | Type Less, Do More: Have SAS do the typing for you | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Elisa Priest | Intro to Longitudinal Data: A Grad Student “How-To” Paper | Application Development |
Sadia Abdullah | Using SASHELP to Validate Attributes | Reporting and Statistics |
Jeremy Poling | Finding Oracle® Table Metadata: When PROC CONTENTS Is Not Enough | Beyond the Basics |
Philamer Atienza | Ethnicity and Race: When Your Output Isn’t What You Expected | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Hemalkumar Mehta | PROC SURVEYFREQ: Why Do a Three Way Table in SAS When We Want Two Way Table Information? | Reporting and Statistics |
Hemalkumar Mehta | Advice to Health Services Researchers: Be Cautious Using the “Where” Statement in SAS Programs for Nationally Representative Complex Survey Data | Reporting and Statistics |
Yinle Zhou | Incorporating DataFlux dfPower Studio 8.2 into a Graduate-Level Information Quality Tools Class | Application Development |
David Welch | They’re Closing Down the Office in Kalamazoo and You’ve Been Tapped to Run Their In-house “Production” Reporting System, OH MY! | Beyond the Basics |
James Beaver | Tracking and Reporting Account Referral Activity using Hash tables and SAS BI | Application Development |
Mary Rosenbloom | Assigning a User-defined Macro to a Function Key | Potpourri |
Mary Rosenbloom | Best Practices – Clean House to Avoid Hangovers | Potpourri |
Ravi Lingineni | A Simulation Study for Power Analysis in a Longitudinal Study Using SAS | Reporting and Statistics |
Mary Grace Crissey | The easy way to include XML formatted data into your SAS reports | Application Development |
Aiming Yang | Staying Relevant in the Ever-Changing Pharmaceutical Industry | Potpourri |
Fujiang Wen | Evaluation of Promotional Campaigns in the Utilities Industry Using a Transfer Function Time-Series Model | Reporting and Statistics |
Georgeanna Curbo | Mastering Non-Standard Data Sources with SAS: Using Patterns, Parsing, and Text to Handle Difficult Files | Beyond the Basics |
Brandon Vaughn | Introduction to Multi-Level Modeling | Reporting and Statistics |
Brandon Vaughn | Tips & Tricks: Creation of Regional Maps via Enterprise Guide | Application Development |
Mekhala Acharya | Annotate your SG Procedure Graphs | Potpourri |
Kirk Paul Lafler | Point-and-Click Programming Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® | |
Kirk Paul Lafler | Basic SAS® PROCedures for Producing Quick Results | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Kirk Paul Lafler | You Could Be a SAS® Nerd If… | Potpourri |
Kirk Paul Lafler | How to Read Data into SAS® with the DATA Step | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Charles Edwin Shipp | Consulting: Career Path Considerations | Potpourri |
Charles Edwin Shipp | Benefits of sasCommunity.org for JMP® Coders | Potpourri |
Charles Edwin Shipp | Connect with SAS® Professionals Around the World with LinkedIn and sasCommunity.org | Potpourri |
Alexandros Vidras | Using Proc Logistic, SAS Macros and ODS Output to evaluate the consistency of independent variables during the development of logistic regression models. An example from the retail banking industry | Reporting and Statistics |
Sandra Minjoe | CDISC ADaM Application: One-Record-Per-Subject Data That Doesn't Belong in ADSL | Potpourri |
Huei-Ling Chen | A Well Designed Process and QC Tool for Integrated Summary of Safety Reports | Reporting and Statistics |
Joe Celko | Quick intro to SQL | Potpourri |
Piyanka Jain | Putting Analytics into Business Contect: The Analytics Value Chain | Reporting and Statistics |
Kirk Paul Lafler | What’s Hot, What’s Not – Skills for SAS® Professionals | Potpourri |
Charles Edwin Shipp | Win With SAS®, JMP®, and Special Interest User Groups | Beyond the Basics |
Kirk Paul Lafler | Consulting: Critical Success Factors | Potpourri |
Kirk Paul Lafler | Top Ten SAS® Sites for Programmers: A Review | Potpourri |
Kirk Paul Lafler | An Introduction to SAS® Hash Programming Techniques | Beyond the Basics |
Anna Vincent | "Let's Get SAS To Do It!" | |
Ryan Sides | An Introductory Look at the Situational Context Inherent in the RBI Using Two Modeling Approaches | Reporting and Statistics |
Michael Patrick Welch | Peeking into Windows to improve your SAS Performance | Potpourri |
Kevin Smith | Unveiling the Power of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in ODS | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Kathryn McLawhorn | Choosing the Road Less Traveled: Performing Similar Tasks with either SAS® DATA Step Processing or with Base SAS® Procedures | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Cynthia Zender | The Greatest Hits: ODS Essentials Every User Should Know | Application Development |
Cynthia Zender | Practically Perfect Presentations | Hands-on-Workshops |
Michael Walters | Becoming a Better Programmer with SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.3® | Beyond the Basics |
Mark Schneider | Understanding the Anatomy of a SAS® Deployment: What's in My Server Soup? | Foundations and Fundamentals |
Kim Wilson | The Top 10 Head-Scratchers: SAS® Log Messages That Prompt a Call to SAS Technical Support | Potpourri |
Cynthia Zender | Don’t Gamble with Your Output: How to Use Microsoft Formats with ODS | Potpourri |