Recently in the SAS Community Library: SAS' @AndyRavenna publishes the second of two posts that uses statistics and machine-learning objects in SAS Visual Analytics to address real-world business problems.
I am modeling a proportion in glimmix using event/trials format of the outcome variable. If my predictors are also proportions with the same denominator as the the outcome, would I just enter the numerator as my predictor since the number of trials is already accounted for? Or should I use the actual proportion or fraction as my predictor.
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I tried: ... sas.exe myfile.sas7bdat without success. I.e., I like to open a .sas7bdat file from the command line similar to how Windows opens SAS when double-clicking on a .sas7dbat file in Windows Explorer. Thank you.
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I have an outcome with four levels:
Level 1: Starting in group A and staying in group A
Level 2: Starting in group A and switching to group B
Level 3: Starting in group B and staying in group B
Level 4: Starting in group B and switching to group A
This outcome requires multinomial logistic regression, since there are more than two levels.
My question:
Can this outcome be re-coded as a binary variable in order to conduct binary logistic regression?
For example comparing "Level 2" vs. "Not Level 2 (levels 1, 3 and 4 combined)"?
I understand how to reformat this variable in SAS so that it's technically a binary variable, but I'm concerned if this would be a valid statistical approach for handling a variable that conceptually has 4 distinct levels.
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I am seeking urgent help as the issue impacting all SAS Studio users on our Viya 4 environment. Since 9:30AM EST today, users have been encountering an error message stating "ERROR: Insufficient disk space is full, or quota has been exceeded." or "ERROR: Insufficient space in file WORK.BDXFS124.DATA." Unable to run even simple steps like proc contents, or reading data from sashelp to work directory and this issue is causing significant disruption to our daily operations, as it prevents users from performing any task in sas studio and sometime we noticed "sas studio compute context" is keep on disconnecting.
Our SAS administrator verified the status of pods, and all are working fine and we are unable to identify what caused the issue all of a sudden. Unfortunately, the impact is even more critical as we have fully transitioned to SAS Studio and do not have access to Base SAS at this time and we depend on sas studio for our daily operatoins.
Given the severity of the problem and its impact on our daily operations, any guidance or solution you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Please let me know if there are any immediate steps we can take to free up disk space or identify the cause of the quota being exceeded. We are available to discuss this matter further at your earliest convenience.
Sincerely,
Bhaskar
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The code below isn't my exact code but it accurately illustrates the problem and is much simpler.
I have a macro named ABC with the argument BP_VAR. "BP" stands for "Body Part" and the values I can specify for BP_VAR are Arm, Leg and Head.
Inside the macro, there is a datastep and inside it I had code like this.
If &BP_VAR = "Arm" then do;
... some statements...
end;
And there is similar code for Leg and Head. But it wouldn't work so I found a way around it, although if you have comments on why the above didn't work then I'd be interested to hear it.
But here is the way I got around it, with a longer example to get to the meat of my question. The formats abc, def and ghi referred to below have already been defined. This code is from inside the macro.
%LET BP = "&BP_VAR";
if &BP = "Arm" then do;
...some assignment statements to create a new variable &BP.2;
format &BP.2 abc.;
end;
if &BP = "Leg" then do;
...some assignment statements to create a new variable &BP.2;
format &BP.2 def.;
end;
if &BP = "Head" then do;
...some assignment statements to create a new variable &BP.2;
format &BP.2 ghi;
end;
So as you can see, when the body part of interest is Arm, I want it to go to the Arm section of the macro and make a new variable named Arm2, makes some assignments for it, then assign a format to it. And then go on to do some other stuff that is not relevant to the current problem.
And I want to do the same when the body part of interest is Leg. And again when the body part of interest is Head.
Okay, so here is the problem. Say the body part is Arm. The if-then condition is satisfied in the first section and it creates the new variable and assigns the format abc to it. Neither of the other two if-then conditions are satisfied so it shouldn't even get into those it-then-do loops.
And yet when I run the code as listed, the format for the newly created variable Arm2 is ghi (the one in the 3rd if-then-do group). If I comment out the format assignment in the 3rd group, then the format for the new variable is def (the one in the 2nd if-then-do group).
IOW, it uses the last non-commented out format assignment statement there is even if it's inside a if-then-do group that does not get executed. I even put "put = 'gets here';" code inside the if-then-do group that I don't think is getting executed, and indeed it is not getting executed because the "gets here" message does not show up in the log. And yet somehow the format assignment in that if-then-do group does get executed.
Any idea on what's happening? Thanks in advance.
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