MWSUG 2010 Detailed Schedule

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Section 8:00 AM 8:30 AM 9:00 AM 9:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
Analytics, Statistics, Modeling, Forecasting, & Data Mining The Applied Use of Population Stability Index (PSI) in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ PROC MIXED: Underlying Ideas with Examples Adequacy and Information Values: Two Tools for Ranking Predictors in Generalized Linear Models An Introduction to Multiple Imputation of Complex Sample Data Using SAS® 9.2 Survival Analysis with PHREG: Using MI and MIANALYZE to Accommodate Missing Data
Applications Development Take a Whirlwind Tour around SAS® 9.2 Google Maps and SAS/GRAPH® Point-and-Click Programming Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® Better Decision Making with SAS® Enterprise Business Intelligence and Microsoft Outlook
Foundations & Fundamentals (Beginning Tutorials) Turning Raw Data into Polished Reports DATA Step and PROC SQL Programming Techniques SAS® System Options: The True Heroes of Macro Debugging Macrotize! A Beginner's Guide to Designing and Writing Macros
Hands-On Workshops PROC REPORT Basics: Getting Started with the Primary Statements The SAS® Hash Object: It’s Time To .find() Your Way Around
JMP Comparing JMP® and SAS® for Validating Clinical Trials Ad Hoc and Statistical Model Visualization Using JMP®, SAS®, and Excel Using JMP® and SAS® Software Together to Prepare a Last-Minute Research Project for Publication, Or Statistical Modeling of Breathing Relief in Sarcoidosis Patients Using the JMP® 9 R Interfaces to Perform Bayesian Analyses: Why, How, and What
Programming Beyond the Basics (Advanced Tutorials) You Created That Report in SAS®!? The Power of the ODS PDF Destination Boot Camp for Programmers: Stuff You Need to Know That's Not in the Manual - Best Practices to Help Us Achieve Reproducibility Understanding the SAS® DATA Step and the Program Data Vector A New Look at An Old Friend: Getting Reacquainted with Arrays
Reporting & Information Visualization Visualizing Key Performance Indicators Using the GKPI Procedure Multivariate Data Displays for Evaluating Clusters ODS TAGSETS.RTF: Tips and Tricks Using the SGSCATTER Procedure to Create High-Quality Scatter Plots Visual Display of Data in the Age of Twitter, Mobility, Web, Excel, and PowerPoint: Concise, Communication-Efficient, and Communication-Effective Graphs
SAS with Excel or Database The Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions about SAS® to Excel SAS and Excel, A Winning Combination, Part 2: DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange), a Popular Solution around the World Romancing Your Data: The Getting-to-Know-You Phase Macro Variables Make Life Easier: Applications with SAS® to Excel Linking SAS® Reports to Spreadsheet Data
Solutions Mashups Can Be Gravy: Techniques for Bringing the Web to SAS® Use of FILENAME Statement to Create Automated Reports with Severe Weather Events Data from the National Weather Service This SAS® Program Says to Google, "What's Up Doc?" Summaries by Class and Interval How I Learned to Type 1,388,571 wpm, Or Creating Extensive Shift Tables The Genealogy of Macros Meta-Programming in SAS® with DATA Step

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Section 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
Analytics, Statistics, Modeling, Forecasting, & Data Mining Evaluation of Methods to Determine Optimal Cut Points for Predicting Mortgage Default Ideas and Examples in Generalized Linear Mixed Models The Next Generation: SAS/STAT® 9.22 Using Base SAS® and SAS Enterprise Miner™ to Develop Customer Retention Modeling
Applications Development It's All about Variation: Improving Your Business Process with Statistical Thinking Make it SASsy: Using SAS® to Generate Personalized, Stylized, Automated Email SAS® Macro Application Using Microsoft Excel As Both Control File and Process Documentation Setting Up Project-specific SAS® Windows Environments Streamlining Reports: A Look into Ad Hoc and Standardized Processes
Foundations & Fundamentals (Beginning Tutorials) ERRORs, WARNINGs, and NOTEs (Oh My!): A Practical Guide to Debugging SAS® Programs The Greatest Hits: ODS Essentials Every User Should Know Reporting in the Age of Twitter: Concise Reports and Continuous Real-Time Monitoring The Mystery of the PROC SORT Options NODUPRECS and NODUPKEY Revealed Exploring, Analyzing, and Summarizing Your Data: Choosing and Using the Right SAS Tool from a Rich Portfolio
Hands-On Workshops PROC TABULATE: Getting Started A Cup of Coffee and PROC FCMP: I Cannot Function Without Them
JMP The “Forgotten” JMP® Visualizations Visualization with JMP – The Overlay, Spinning, Surface, and Contour Plots JMP® Simulation-Based Empirical Determination of Robust Scale Estimator and Comparison of Outlier Discrimination Performance A DOE “Real Life” Example: Solid Phase Optimization of a Diagnostic Immunoassay
Programming Beyond the Basics (Advanced Tutorials) Application of DICTIONARY Tables and SASHELP Views Understanding WHERE Clause Processing and Indexes Hard-to-find, But Powerful, PROC SQL Features Stuff We All Do: Mistakes We’ve Made That You Won’t Have To
Reporting & Information Visualization Tips and Tricks: More SAS/GRAPH® Map Secrets Integrating Multiple SAS/GRAPH® Procedures to Generate a Custom Image Two EDF Graphs for Assessing Agreement between Paired Data More To It Than Meets the Eye: Creating Custom Legends That Really Tell a Story Make Your Tables Pop: Embedding Micrographics in PROC REPORT Output
SAS with Excel or Database Using PROC SQL to Build and Incrementally Update That Data Mart Building an Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Server Using Base SAS®, SAS/SHARE®, SAS/CONNECT®, and SAS/ACCESS® Using SAS® Software's Metadata to Generate ETL Precursor Files in a Heterogeneous Database System Base SAS® Methods for Building Dimensional Data Models
Solutions SAS and Excel, A Winning Combination, Part 1: Easy Solutions for Multi-Sheet Excel Workbooks, Color-Coding, Imbedded Graphs, etc. The Art of Being Color-Communication-Effective, Not Just Colorful Happy Birthday! But ... How Old Are You, Really? Building a Match Code Using SAS® Simulating a Simple Solitaire Card Game Using SAS® Using a Few Key Elements of SAS® DATA Step Code and a Couple of Procedures to Optimize the Observation Length of a Data Set Tables As Trees: Merging with Wildcards Using Tree Traversal and Pruning

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Section 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 9:30 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
Analytics, Statistics, Modeling, Forecasting, & Data Mining Novel Use of SAS® Software in Industrial and Biomedical Consulting, Research, and Teaching Using SAS® to Assess and Model Time-to-Event Data with Non-Proportional Hazards Introduction to Logistic Regression
Applications Development Introduction to Business Intelligence for SAS® Users Application Development with SAS® Stored Processes Seamless Dynamic Web Reporting with SAS® Seamless Web Data Entry for SAS® Applications
Foundations & Fundamentals (Beginning Tutorials) Using SAS® Output Delivery System (ODS) Markup to Generate Custom Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts PROC REPORT: Compute Block Basics The SAS® DATA Step: Where Your Input Matters Set, Match, Merge ... Don’t You Love SAS®?
Hands-On Workshops Using PROC SGPLOT for Quick, High-Quality Graphs SAS/GRAPH® Elements You Should Know – Even If You Don’t Use SAS/GRAPH
Health Care & Health Insurance A SAS® Primer for Health Care Data Analysts Medical Guidelines: Consensus Panel Versus Healthcare Analytics Using HPMIXED and Other SAS® Procedures to Efficiently Analyze Large Dimension Registry Data Plotting Summary ROC Curves from Multiple Raters Using the SmryROCPlot Macro SAS® with CLAS: Assessing Adherence to Federal Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
JMP SPC As Part of an Operations Intelligence System Combining JMP® and SAS® Simplifying Drug Discovery with JMP Salesforce Effectiveness at Sears: An Analytic Approach to Goal Setting and Tracking
Programming Beyond the Basics (Advanced Tutorials) Ways of Creating a Macro Variable The Ten Most Frequently Asked Macro Questions Best Practices and Advanced Tips and Techniques for SAS® Macro Programming Using SAS® Macro Functions to Manipulate Data
Resources and Support for SAS Users Creating a Successful Support Model for the SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform Supporting Users, Software, and a BI Server: Using SAS to Support SAS Getting from SAS® 9.1.3 to SAS® 9.2: Practicalities of the Automated Tools Custom Google Searches, PDF Sticky Notes, and Other Tips for Organizing and Accessing SAS® Help Resources

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Section 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
Analytics, Statistics, Modeling, Forecasting, & Data Mining Kernel Density Estimation As an Alternative to Binning of Survey Data Monty Hall, Paul Erdös, and Monte Carlo PROC LIFEREG or PROC PHREG Some Basic Techniques for Data Quality Evaluation Using SAS® Power to Detect Therapist Effects in Randomized, Controlled Trials of Interventions in Clinical Psychology
Applications Development Applied Revolutionary BI SAS® Data and Stored Process for BlackBerry Some New and Not So New Batch Processing Techniques
Foundations & Fundamentals (Beginning Tutorials) Choosing the Right Tool from Your SAS® and Microsoft Excel Tool Belt An Introduction to SQL in SAS® 33 Tricks with PROC REPORT: A Quick Introduction to the Powerful REPORT Procedure
Hands-On Workshops A Hands-on Tour Inside the World of PROC SQL Output Delivery System (ODS) – Simply the Basics
Health Care & Health Insurance Comparative Effectiveness Analysis and Statistical Methodology To Investigate the Impact of Medicare Part D on the Cost Effectiveness of Diabetes Medications and Health Outcomes with SAS® Tips for Automating Univariate Outcomes Analysis in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Gastrointestinal Diseases: Diagnoses, Misdiagnoses, and Comorbidities Characteristic Analysis of the Hospitalized Children with Lower Extremity Fractures in 2006: A Population-Based Approach
Programming Beyond the Basics (Advanced Tutorials) PROC TABULATE: Doing More SGPANEL: Telling the Story Better SAS® Views - The Best of Both Worlds A Different View of PROC SORT
Resources and Support for SAS Users Technical Resources for Beginning SAS® Programmers Win with In-House Users Groups for SAS®, JMP®, and Special Interests Connect with SAS® Professionals around the World with LinkedIn and sasCommunity.org SAS® Programmer’s Challenge: It’s All about the Options