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In an agreement with our presenters, none of the sessions were recorded. Each presenter provided their paper, data, code slides, references or other materials below.

Our Presenters in the 2020 Webinar Series

Richann Watson.

Short Jaunt Down Function and Format Fairway.

May 27, 2020 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT (WebEx Meetings)

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About this course and presenter (pdf file)

Readings:

(The following papers are available at https://datarichconsulting.com/sas-papers.html )

• Richann Watson. “Using a Picture Format to Create Visit Windows”

• Richann Watson. “ ‘V’ for … Variable Information Function to the Rescue”

• Richann Watson. “When ANY Function Will Just NOT Do”

Recommended readings:

• Louise Hadden. “Purrfectly Fabulous Feline Functions”

• Josh Horstman. “Let the CAT Out of the Bag: String Concatenation in SAS® 9”

Josh Horstman.

Dating for SAS Programmers: Working with Dates and Times in SAS

June 24, 2020 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT (WebEx Event)

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About this course and presenter (pdf file)

Readings:

• Josh Horstman. Dating for SAS Programmers, Presented at SESUG 2019.

• SAS® 9.4 Functions and CALL Routines: Reference, Fifth Edition

  • (pdf version)

  • (html version)

Recommended readings:

• Derek P. Morgan and Art Carpenter. The Essential Guide to SAS® Dates and Times, Second Edition. Publisher: SAS Institute, Copyright Date: December 2014

• Ron Cody. SAS® Functions by Example, Second Edition. Publisher: SAS Institute, Copyright Date: March 2010

Kirk Paul Lafler.

Fuzzy Matching Programming Techniques Using SAS® Software.

July 29, 2020 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT (WebEx Event)

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About this course and presenter (pdf file)

Readings: Kirk Paul Lafler and Stephen Sloan. Fuzzy Matching Programming Techniques Using SAS® Software, updated July 27, 2020

Data Sets used by Kirk in his paper:

• actors_with_messy_data.sas7bdat

• movies_with_messy_data.sas7bdat

Dr. Steven C. Myers.

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Regression Analysis: Don't let common mistakes ruin your regression and your career.

August 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT (WebEx Event)

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About this course and presenter (pdf file)

Readings, my papers:

Explore your data before you rush to analysis, you will thank me later: explorations in cross section data. Best Paper in Business Leadership at MWSUG 2019.

• Data and code to support the above paper: https://github.com/campnmug/rent

Do you know when your data is lying to you? The How of regression analysis with quantitative and qualitative variables. Presented at SCSUG 2019.

• Data and code to support the above paper: https://github.com/campnmug/Model_selection_and_inference

• Ethics Rules in Applied Econometrics and Data Science. This appears as a blog entry at https://econdatascience.com/ethics-rules-in-applied-econometrics-and-data-science/ and is published in the book Bill Franks (ed.) 97 Things about Ethics Everyone in Data Science Should Know, pp. 231-233, O'Reilly, 2020.

Recommended Books:

• Haider Murtaza. Getting Started in Data Science, IBM Press, 2015.

• Peter Kennedy. A Guide to Econometrics, 6th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

• Bill Franks (ed.) 97 Things about Ethics Everyone in Data Science Should Know, O'Reilly, 2020.

• Cathy O'Neil. On Being a Data Skeptic, O'Reilly. (free).

Other Readings and references:

• Marc Bellemare, U. MInn, Metrics Mondays blog.

• SAS Documentation: Influence Statistics in PROC REG.

My Presentation Deck:

• slides

About the Ohio SAS Users Groups

There are three SAS Users Groups (or SUGs) in Ohio. Together they are sponsoring this series of webinars instead of holding our typical Ohio SAS One Day Conference which was cancelled due to the 2020 pandemic. Please contact them to join, its free. Also let them know if you are willing to volunteer. The information below is current on June 3, 2020 and accessed at this SAS Users Group page.