Join us for our next meeting - a 1-Day SAS Conference!
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Place: VisTaTech Center
Schoolcraft College
18600 Haggerty Road
Livonia, MI 48152
Cost: $50 on or before May 25, 2017; $95 after May 25, 2017 includes
breakfast, lunch and breaks. Register now at http://www.misug.org!
Agenda (abstracts are available on the MSUG website, http://www.misug.org):
New Macro Features Added in SAS 9.3 and 9.4 - Rick Langston, SAS
I've Got to Hand It to You: Portable Programming Techniques - Art
Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants
Modeling Longitudinal Categorical Response Data - Maura Stokes, SAS
Leave Your Bad Code Behind: 50 Ways to Make Your SAS Code Execute More
Efficiently - William Benjamin, OWL Computer
Consultancy, LLC
Exploring HASH Tables vs. SORT/DATA Step vs. PROC SQL - Richann Watson,
Experis
Hazards, Densities and Repeated Events for Predictive Marketing - Bruce
Lund, Magnify Analytic Solutions
Finding Out About Formats and Their Attributes - Rick Langston, SAS
Building Intelligent Macros: Using Metadata Functions with the SAS Macro
Language - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants
Fitting Your Favorite Mixed Models with PROC MCMC - Maura Stokes, SAS
Exchanging Data between SAS and Excel Using Basic SAS Techniques - William
Benjamin, OWL Computer Consultancy, LLC
Several Examples of Designed Industrial Experiments Using JMP for Data
Analysis - Bob Bondar, BASF
Lag Models with Social Response Outcomes - David Corliss, Ford Motor Company
When ANY Function Will Just NOT Do - Richann Watson, Experis
Additional speakers include:
Russ Lavery, Consultant
Register now at http://www.misug.org!
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We will also be offering the following pre- and post-conference training
sessions:
Monday, June 5- From %Macro to %MEND: An Introduction to the SAS® Macro
Language (Art Carpenter)
Tuesday, June 6- Advanced Techniques in the SAS® Macro Language (Art Carpenter)
Wednesday, June 7 (AM)- Innovative Tips and Techniques: Doing More in the DATA
Step (Art Carpenter)
Wednesday, June 7 (PM)- Building Dynamic Programs and Applications Using the
SAS® Macro Language (Art Carpenter)
Friday, June 9 (AM)- Exponential Smoothing Forecasts in SAS and JMP (Russ
Lavery)
Friday, June 9 (PM)- Decision Trees and Neural Nets in SAS and JMP (Russ Lavery)
Monday, Tuesday and Friday training sessions will be held at the Residence Inn
(17250 Fox Drive, Livonia, 48152), while the Wednesday
training sessions will be held at the VisTaTech Center (18600 Haggerty Road,
Livonia, 48152). The cost for a half-day session will be $185/person
($160/person for groups of 3 or more from the same organization); the cost for
a full-day session will be $395/person ($370/person for groups of 3 or more
from the same organization).
Register for the training sessions at http://www.misug.org!
