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Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
David B. Marx, Ph.D., Department of Statistics ,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Statistics in Sports
Our morning keynote speaker will address today's great interest in
applying statistics to sports. We’re not just talking about batting
averages, but ever increasingly complex statistical methods of helping
individuals and teams improve their performance. Researchers may use
statistical models in an amazingly wide variety of applications from predicting
the outcome of sporting events, helping determine salary guidelines, and even
select player selection. Dr. Marx will examine how to determine synergy in
basketball, select teams in high school soccer, determine which college baseball
players will be successful in the major leagues, as well as a brief look as
volleyball, tennis, and last, but not least, football examples.
- Dave Marx received his PhD in Statistics from the University of
Kentucky. He became Professor and Head of the Department of Biometry
at the University of Nebraska in 1989. He served in the role until
1997. He is currently Professor of the Department of Statistics at UNL.
He has published over 150 journal articles. He has supervised more
than 30 masters students and 4 doctoral students. His special interest
in statistics in sports.
David Kelley,
Senior Software Manager, ODS, SAS® Institute, Inc.
Base Reporting with ODS
The PRINT, TABULATE and REPORT procedures are mainstays of Base SAS®
reporting. Since SAS 8 they have been integrated with the Output Delivery System
(ODS). Nowhere is that integration more evident than in the procedures’ unique
support of ODS styles.
This presentation will describe ODS styles and how to customize their usage in
PRINT, TABULATE and REPORT. Examples will include highlighting rows with color,
embedding graphic images into reports, and creating data-driven (traffic
lighting) effects. The desired outcome is that you will learn how to create a
visually appealing report that directs your customer’s attention to its most
important aspects.
Familiarity with the reporting procedures is recommended.
What’s New in ODS in SAS® 9.2
The upcoming 9.2 release of SAS® includes new features of particular
interest to Output Delivery System (ODS) and Base reporting users. These
features offer increased control over the integration, content and presentation
of procedure output. Among the new features covered are:
• Inline formatting for rich text in titles, footnotes and table cells
• New TrueType fonts for portable reporting
• ODS RTF tagset for customizable, vertically measured RTF
• Support for text decoration (underlining) in RTF, PDF, and HTML
• PROC REPORT SPANROWS option for repeating variable values across page breaks
The desired outcome is for audience members to begin thinking about how they
will exploit this new functionality in future applications.
Familiarity with ODS is highly recommended.
- David Kelley is Senior Software Manager of the group responsible for
Base SAS reporting and the Output Delivery System (ODS). He has
supported PROC TABULATE since 1995. He is the author of PROC DOCUMENT,
which was introduced in SAS 9. David is involved with other SAS 9
features such as the Business Intelligence platform and ODS statistical
graphics.
David has a B.S. in Computer Science from Furman University and a M.S. in
Computer Science from Clemson University. He lives in Willow Springs,
NC with his wife and three children.
Chris Hemedinger, Senior Software Manager, BI, SAS®
Institute, Inc.
Your Gateway to SAS: SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS Enterprise Guide is a desktop application that can access the power of
SAS running on any platform, whether it's Windows, Unix, or the mainframe.
It provides dozens of tasks and wizards that make it easy to analyze data and
create reports without having to write any SAS code —
unless you want to. If you're new to SAS, this is the way to get started.
What's New in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 provides many new enhancements to help SAS
programmers, business analysts, and other business users be more productive with
SAS. This presentation will introduce you to some of the highlights
including a revamped user interface in SAS Enterprise Guide, an improved query
builder interface, a new PROC report-based wizard, support for ODS statistical
graphics, task templates, and much more. Customers will find many reasons
to upgrade to or get started for the first time with the new release.
Find Out What You're Missing: SAS Enterprise Guide for SAS
Programmers
Learn about the productivity gains that you can enjoy when you add SAS
Enterprise Guide to your SAS programming toolbox. You will see how to
perform old tasks in a new way as well as how to accomplish some tasks that
would be have been very difficult — if not
impossible — without the benefit of an
integrated tool like SAS Enterprise Guide. Topics in this presentation
include:
• Working with projects and the process flow
• Getting the most from SAS tasks
• Flexing your power with project prompts
• Conditionally running portions of your project
• Noting a few things that you can't do
- Chris Hemedinger is a Senior Software Manager for SAS in the Business
Intelligence Clients division. He is also co-author of SAS for
Dummies, published in 2007 by Jon Wiley and Sons.
Andrew Karp, Sierra
Information Services
Steps to Success with SAS Macros [Beginner’s Track]
This presentation helps you understand the power and flexibility of the SAS
Macro Language and identifies ways it helps simplifies your projects and
programs. Designed for newer users of the SAS System, Mastering the SAS
Macro Language helps you understand the interface between the SAS Programming
and Macro Languages, and why programs you may have inherited from experienced
SAS programmers contain lots of ampersand (&) and percent signs (%). We
will spend time explaining what Macro variables are, where they are stored, and
how they are “resolved” when you submit a SAS program, thus lifting the veil of
mystery about what those ampersands and percent signs are doing in your
programs. And, we will look at different approaches to assign, or
“declare” values of Macro variables and how to “resolve” their values during
program execution. Finally, we will take a look at simple ways to utilize
the SAS Macro Language to write re-useable “Macros” that reduce the amount of
work you need to do to maintain your programs.
Intended Audience: This presentation is appropriate for SAS users who are
already familiar with core SAS programming language concepts such as data steps
and procedure steps.
Working with SAS Date and Time Functions [Beginner’s
Track]
This presentation shows you how to get the most out of SAS System tools
for working with variables representing dates and/or times. Designed for
the beginning to intermediate user of SAS Software, this session discusses how
SAS “works” with date and time variables, how to create date and time variables,
and programming functions that are designed to simplify your work. You
will also learn about different approaches to how SAS calculates duration (the
number of time periods between events), the role of SAS Formats with date and
time variables, how SAS INFORMATS are used to create date and time variables
from raw data, and the new ANYDATE Informat added in SAS 9 Software.
- Andrew Karp is a 26-year SAS user who runs his own SAS Software consulting
and training firm, Sierra Information Services from his home in the California
Wine Country. He has spoken at SAS user group event in eleven countries
and has presented SAS training classes throughout the world.
Anil Jayaprakash,
Experian
Asha Jayaprakash, infoUSA
SAS and Financial Analysis
A company's stock listed on any of the global stock markets is subject to
external risks related to socio, economic and geo-political factors.
Assuming that the external factors are constant, a stock can still be volatile
due its internal performances. Certain internal factors like a company's
announcements on splits, mergers & acquisitions, earnings etc., do influence the
price of its stock. However, other factors can make a stock fluctuate
(within a short span) causing panic amongst the shareholders.
By doing surveillance on factors like ROI, Risk Management and Portfolio
Analysis, one can monitor a company's stock in an efficient manner. In
this paper, we use the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) in SAS® 9.1.3 to
statistically analyze the market performance of a certain stock thereby
understanding its true value.
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Anil Jayaprakash is currently working as a Data
Mining Analyst at West Asset Management based in Omaha. He is a SAS
Certified Professional and has over five years of experience using SAS.
He has been a speaker at the NEBSUG® conferences in 2006 and 2007.
Anil has a bachelor of engineering degree in Computer Science from India and
a master's degree in Statistics from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
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Asha Jayaprakash has a bachelor degree in Business and an MBA from India.
Also, she obtained her MS degree in Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM)
from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). She is currently
working as a Statistician at infoUSA, headquartered in Omaha. She has
over four years of experience in SAS and Statistical modeling. Her
interests lie in analytics and predictive modeling.
Pat O’Meara, Pat O’Meara Associates, Inc.
What’s New in SAS® Enterprise Miner 5.3?
The short answer is “lots”. This presentation will focus on changes
and enhancements to the user interface, including new navigation tools,
reorganized tool bars and property sheets, and interactive graphics.
Enhancing the Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, Assess (SEMMA) process are the new
nodes Append, Graph Explore, Interactive Binning, Model Import, and Cutoff
nodes. These and other enhancements will be described as time permits.
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Pat O’Meara received his Ph.D. in Mathematical
Statistics from the University of Iowa. He began using SAS in the
early 70’s when he was a graduate research assistant in the Statistical
Consulting Center. He currently resides in Lincoln, NE where he has
been working as an independent consulting statistician for the past 14
years. He is a SAS Certified Advanced V9 Programmer and an Affiliate
Partner of the SAS Alliance.
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