Department of Statistics Seminar
North Carolina State University

presents

Maura Stokes

SAS Institute

"Recent Enhancements and New Directions in SAS/STAT Software"

ABSTRACT

Version 7 of the SAS System brings major enhancements to the statistical software. All output is now handled by the Output Delivery System, which gives the user control over the printing of the results, allows all tables and statistics to be output to SAS data sets, and produces web-browsable HTML output. New procedures provide tools for partial least squares analysis and spatial prediction. The GENMOD procedure now provides LSMEANS and ESTIMATE statements, and its GEE facility provides the alternating logistic regression algorithm, produces Wald and score tests for model effects and handles the ordinal response case. Additional exact tests have been added to several procedures, and even the TTEST procedure has been updated.

In addition to procedures for survey design and analysis, Version 7 also introduces experimental procedures for nonparametric density estimates and nonparametric regression. This talk presents an overview of the statistical enhancements and new directions that are part of Version 7.

Friday, January 22, 1999

3:35 - 4:35 pm

206 Cox Hall

Refreshments will be served on the second floor of Dabney Hall (left of Room 222) at 3:00 pm.