Denver SAS User Group Jan 14, 2009

The next meeting of the Denver SAS Users Group will be Wednesday, January 14th from 4:30 to 6:00pm in Heitler Hall in the Goodman Building at National Jewish Medical & Research Center.  Our speaker will be John Schmitz, PhD. who will be presenting two talks:

1.  Creating and Using Custom Formats for Data Management and Summarization Pro=
cessing

The presentation will review creation of custom formats directly in Proc Fo=
rmat as well as through the data step.  These formats will then be applied =
for lookup tables in a data step (replacing a merge) and for summarization =
within a class statement.  The presentation will be introductory to interme=
diate level and serve as a base for the second topic.

2.  Using Multilabel formats for data summarization.

The focus will be on defining, creating and using multilabel formats.  The =
presentation will demonstrate using multilabel formats to divide data into =
multiple time buckets and provide appropriate summary statistics based on e=
ach period.  No knowledge of MLFs is assumed.

Have a great holiday season and I hope to see you at the meeting!

Best regards,
Brenda

Brenda Beaty, MSPH
Analytic Coordinator and Senior Analyst
SAS Certified Base Programmer
Colorado Health Outcomes Program
(303) 724-1076
Brenda.Beaty@ucdenver.edu<mailto:Brenda.Beaty@ucdenver.edu>
www.uchsc.edu/coho<http://www.uchsc.edu/coho>