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Internet and Web Resources for SAS Programmers and Statisticians Wei Cheng, ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

Provides SAS Staffing, Training, and Alliances. ABSTRACT PW CONSULTING The Internet is playing a more and more important role in www.pwcons.com/ exchanging information and helping people meet. It is a library, a Specializes in building SAS/AF and Internet based SAS shopping mall, a mailbox, and a research tool. For SAS applications. You can find all kinds of SAS tips from their web programmers and statisticians, the Internet is also an important site. resource for communicating with the community of SAS users, for accessing various SAS documents, and for getting consulting QUALEX CONSULTING SERVICES help. The resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web are www.qlx.com/ already enormous and still expanding. This paper is designed to Specializes in consulting exclusively in the use of the SAS help SAS programmers and statisticians know what is on the system. Their resource center is a good place to visit. Internet and where it is. It can be kept as a reference guide. QUAL I.T. SERVICES PTY LTD INTRODUCTION www.qual-it.com.au Focuses on implementing complete decision support and If you do a search with the key word “‘SAS” on a search engine to reporting solutions using the SAS System. find SAS help from the Internet, you may not find the exact topic you are looking for. Instead, you may find hundreds of Web sites RATCLIFFE TECHNICAL SERVICES that are not related to SAS software, such as Scandinavian www.ratcliffe.demon.co.uk Airlines. Whether you are in the startup phase of your SAS Is one of the foremost independent SAS consultancies in the UK. career, or have been a statistician for years and need consulting assistance from other experts, or you are interested in the latest SIERRA INFORMATION SERVICES conference, you’ll find a Web site here that can meet your needs. www.SierraInformation.com The Web sites have been divided into several categories to assist Focuses on using the SAS System for Information Delivery. you. STAT-TECH SERVICES, LLC CONSULTING www.StatTechServices.com Specializing in the analysis of clinical trials for pharmaceutical, BASSETT CONSULTING SERVICES biopharmaceutical and medical device clients. If you are working www.bassettconsulting.com in this area, you should visit their web site. Specializes in developing systems using SAS/AF, SAS/IntrNet, SYSTEMS SEMINAR CONSULTANTS and webAF software. You can find Michael Davis’s SAS papers from here. www.sys-seminar.com/ Specializes in data systems development, decision support and CALIFORNIA OCCIDENTAL CONSULTANTS business consultation. You can subscribe to their SAS newsletter www.caloxy.com/ and read their papers. Provides consulting services in the areas of training, contract ZURICH BIOSTATISTICS programming, , and data processing. www.zbi.net/NewFiles/Presentations.html DATA AND ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS pecializes in SAS and XML solutions for pharmaceutical www.DASconsultants.com regulatory submissions of clinical studies. If you have some Provide professional on-site and off-site data and analytical questions regarding the report of clinical trials, come to visit here. solutions. DESTINY CORPORATION PERSONAL SAS OR STATISTICS PAGES www.destinycorp.com ALAN J. MILLER’S PAGE Provides training and consulting. www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj/ HOLLAND NUMERICS LIMITED http://users.bigpond.net.au/amiller/ www.hollandnumerics.com/SAS_QUESTIONS.HTM The Fortran 90 web site of Alan J. Miller. Specializes in a wide range of PC and mainframe computer CLARENCE JACKSON'S HOME PAGE services. You can find their SAS papers and ask SAS questions from this site. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CJac/ You can find Clarence Jackson’s SAS papers and some useful INDUSTRIAL SOFTWORKS links here. http://industrialsoftworks.com/ COMPUCRAFT’S SAS PAGE You can get the macro %SAS2PDF from here. http://members.aol.com/xlr82sas/utl.html JADE TECH A good collection of SAS code. www.jadetek.com/ CREATING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH THE SAS SOFTWARE Specializes in developing customized computer solutions using the SAS System. www.lex-jansen.demon.nl/seugi/ Lex Jansen gives a good presentation here.

KNOWLTON GROUP, LLC DON STANLEY’S SAS PAGE www.knowltongroup.com www.geocities.com/don_stanley_nz/sastips.htm Read SAS tips from Don Stanley. Professional Development and User Support

ED CABANERO'S SITE You can find SAS macros primarily useful for structural equation www.byte-symphony.com/ modeling. You can find useful links here. RICHARD A. DEVENEZIA'S HOMEPAGE HOT-DECK IMPUTATION ESTIMATES www.devenezia.com/ www.pstc.brown.edu/papers/wp-1997/97-12ab.html http://pweb.netcom.com/~radevenz/ Read James W. McNally’s paper here. Richard Devenezia maintains a good listing of his SAS macros and his papers. You can also find SAS/AF tips from here. JACK HAMILTON’S SAS PAGE www.qsl.net/kd6ttl/sas/ RICK ASTER'S SAS PROGRAMMING RESOURCES Contains Jack Hamilton’s SAS papers. www.globalstatements.com/ www.rickaster.com/globalstatements/index.html JOSEPH L. SCHAFER'S PAGE Besides his well known SAS books, Rick Aster also has this www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/ Web Site for you to surf. If you are interested in multiple imputation, you should visit here. TREVOR HASTIE'S HOME PAGE JUDITH D. SINGER’S HOME PAGE www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie/ http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~faculty/singer/ You can read Professor Trevor Hastie’s papers here. Judith Singer is a professor at Harvard University. You can read her papers of statistical models including design and analysis of WADE H. VAN BUSKIRK'S HOME PAGE longitudinal studies, using SAS PROC MIXED, etc. You can also www.psmfc.org/~wade/ find links to other statistical sites. Wade is a Fisheries Programmer/Analyst. You can find his papers and SAS code at this site. LYNN FOSTER-JOHNSON'S HOME PAGE http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/Lynn.Foster- Johnson/ SAS INSTITUTE Lynn Foster-Johnson has some SAS code collections here. www..com The best place for SAS system is of course the home page of the MICHAEL FRIENDLY'S HOME PAGE SAS Institute. You can get all kinds of support from there www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html including technical notes, demo and sample programs, training, Contains tips for SAS/GRAPH. If you are using SAS/GRAPH, you SAS publications, etc. Some useful links are: should visit this site to learn from the expert of SAS/GRAPH. OLIVER SCHABENBERGER' HOME PAGE ftp://ftp.sas.com/ www.stat.vt.edu/~oliver/default.html FTP server of SAS Institute, you can download sample programs, publications, and technical notes from this FTP archive. You can find good SAS papers from Oliver Schabenberger here. PAUL ALLISON'S HOME PAGE ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/technote www.ssc.upenn.edu/~allison/ FTP server of technical notes. Here you can fine Paul Allison’s SAS macros and information about his statistics courses and books. www.sas.com/rnd/base/early- PAUL JOHNSON'S PAGE access/odsdoc2/sashtml/tw5195/pdfidx.htm http://pages.prodigy.net/johnsonp12/homepage.html#Secti The Complete Guide to the SAS Output Delivery System. on8 Some useful biostatistical software routines are here. www.sas.com/service/edu/courses/tutorials.html PHIL MASON'S SAS PAGE SAS Software Tutorials for Version 8. http://how.to/usesas This page is still under the construction, but since the owner is www.sas.com/service/techsup/faq/macro.html Phil Mason, it will be a good place to visit. SAS Macro FAQ. RAMI ZWICK'S HOME PAGE http://home.ust.hk/~mkzwick/zwick.html www.sas.com/service/techtips/ Tips from SAS staff. You can download Rami Zwick’s papers from here. SAS FAQ www.sas.com/usergroups/sugi/intro.html www.hollandnumerics.co.uk/sasfaq/SASFAQ.HTM SAS Users Group International (SUGI). Frequently Asked Questions about SAS Software by Phil Holland. SAS TIPS AND TRAPS FROM SAS-L www.sas.com/usergroups/sugi/proceedings/index.html http://home.att.net/~sasl/ SUGI Proceedings Online. Contains a list of SAS tips and a list of SAS traps from SAS-L archives. SAS-L SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND INVITED TALKS BY ELDER RESEARCH SAS-L is a mailing list devoted to discussions about SAS www.datamininglab.com/resources.html software. It’s very useful for all levels of SAS users. Most of the John F. Elder provides his papers here. resources in this paper were collected from SAS-L. STEVE GREGORICH'S PAGE http://sites.netscape.net/segregorich/index.html ARCHIVES OF [email protected] 2 Professional Development and User Support

www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/ You can search the SAS-L archive, join the list, and post to the Resources to help you learn and use SAS. list from this site. UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE LISTSERV AT UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA www.uni-koeln.de/themen/Statistik/sas/ www.listserv.uga.edu/ SAS page of Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne). You can learn about the web-based LISTSERV from this site. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LISTSERV LOGS FOR SAS-L ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/sas/ http://vm.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?SAS-L Public SAS download directory of the University of Georgia. SAS-L Archives at Marist College. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN LISTSERV’S MANUAL AND DOCUMENTATION www.utexas.edu/cc/stat/ www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/user/user.html Statistical Services from ACITS at UT Austin. General User's Guide to LISTSERV® will help you to learn how to use LISTSERV correctly. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/index.html Statistical Computing Tools from the Division of Biostatistics and POWER SEARCH FROM DEJA.COM’ USENET DISCUSSION Epidemiology Department of Health Evaluation Sciences. SERVICE http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml YORK UNIVERSITY Enter the newsgroup name “comp.soft-sys.sas” as the searching www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/lab/sas/ key word, and you can get to the list. SAS Information Guides from York University. SAS-L INFORMATION www.basas.com/pages/SAS_L.htm STATISTICS RELATED PRODUCTS OR You can get a brief introduction of some SAS-L commands from SOFTWARE this site. DATA CONVERSION TOOLS WHAT IS SAS-L? http://home.snafu.de/wehe/apps.html www.qsl.net/kd6ttl/sas/sas-lov.pdf Here you can find a collection of links to utilities for the Jack Hamilton’s paper will give you a good introduction to SAS-L. conversion of software data. DBMS/COPY SAS MANUAL www.conceptual.com http://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/ Conceptual Software Home Page. http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/computing/research/SASMan ESS http://ess.stat.wisc.edu/ ual/onldoc.htm Emacs Speaks Statistics. HTML version of SAS OnlineDoc (Version 8). GESTALT SYSTEM SAS OR STATISTICS PAGES FROM http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Gestalt System project, an Open Source Framework for Data UNIVERSITIES OR INSTITUTE Management, Analysis and Reporting. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY INSCHOOL www.asu.edu/it/fyi/research/helpdocs/statistics/sas/ www.sasinschool.com/ SAS page of Arizona Sate University. SAS inSchool home page. CORNELL UNIVERSITY JMP www.ciser.cornell.edu/computing/online.html www.jmpdiscovery.com/ SAS help from Cornell Institute for Social and Economic JMP statistical discovery software home page. Research. MACKICHAN NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH www.tcisoft.com/ http://statsoft.nih.gov/index.htm MacKichan Software Home Page. Software to write scientific Statistical Support Section for NIH. notation. NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY MATHTYPE www.stat.ncsu.edu/sas/ncsu-sas-users.html www.mathtype.com/ Listserv for SAS Users at North Carolina State University. MathType- a tool for creating mathematical notation. TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER MATLAB AND SIMULINK http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/anonftp/page_2.html www.mathworks.com/ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Department of Biomathematics Mathworks’s home page. Archive. 4.0 MACRO FUNCTION UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES www.oac.ucla.edu/training/stat/ http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q128/1/8 Statistical Computing from Academic Technology Services (ATS) 5.asp (Contains SAS Online Manuals). Microsoft Excel 4.0-macro function help file download site.

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MULTIPLE IMPUTATION This site is intended as a resource for applied researchers and www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/misoftwa.html statisticians interested in the theory and methods of latent class Software for multiple imputation. analysis. STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL & SPC PRESS www.r-project.org www.spcpress.com/ The R project for Statistical Computing. You can find information about statistical process control from here. SISA STATISTICIANS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY – http://home.clara.net/sisa/index.htm RESOURCE CENTRE Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis, an online statistical www.psiweb.org/resources.htm analysis programs and software package. The title already tells you what the site is about. S-PLUS RECURSIVE-PARTITIONING www.splus.mathsoft.com/ www.recursive-partitioning.com/ S-PLUS home page. Contains links to classification & regression trees and cluster SPSS analysis. www.spssscience.com/ www.spss-science.co.uk TUTORIALS AND TIPS SPSS Science. CO-SAS USER GROUP PAGE STATVIEW www.telepath.com/khobson/sas/sas.html www.statview.com/ Contains some SAS tips and useful links. StatView Software home page. EXCEL 2 SAS AND BACK WEBPAGE TEX www.stanford.edu/class/gsb/excel2sas.html www.ctan.org/ Contains all kinds of methods for converting data files between The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. MS Excel and SAS. STATISTICAL SOLUTIONS EXCEL TO SAS FROM WASHINGTON DC USER GROUP’S www.statsolusa.com HOME PAGE Statistical Solutions Ltd.’s home page. www.ita.doc.gov/industry/otea/dcsug/excelsas.pdf Michael Mumma has a good paper for comparing methods. STAT/TRANSFER www.stattransfer.com/ EXPORT A SAS DATASET TO WORD, EXCEL, OR ASCII FILE Stat/Transfer converts data between statistics progams, www.qlx.com/exporter.htm databases and worksheets -> SAS, SPSS, , Qualex consulting provides their SAS tool Exporter here. Excel, Access , Gauss, ODBC, Matlab. ODS TIPS FROM PW CONSULTING WORDSTAT www.pwcons.com/Tips/base/ods/ www.simstat.com You can learn ODS experience here from PW consulting. Inexpensive, easy, yet powerful statistical solutions for research and teaching. SAS CONSULTANT SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (CONSIG) www.sconsig.com/ STATISTICS RESOURCES Charles Patridge maintains a good web site for SAS community. SAS HELP AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHAPTER www.libname.com www.sfasa.org/ www.sashelp.com Useful for Bay Area statisticians. David Ward provides his SAS help to SAS community. AMSTAT ONLINE SAS TRAINING FOR CLINICAL TRAILS www.amstat.org/ www.philau.edu/continuinged/sascert.html American Statistical Association home page. An innovative and intensive program to prepare professionals for challenging, rewarding employment in pharmaceutical companies CALCULATORS ON-LINE CENTER and clinical research organizations. http://members.aol.com/drelzak/calc.html SURVIVAL ANALYSIS AND LOGISTIC REGRESSION You can find lots of calculators here including statistics. http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/SAS/survrisk.txt CLUSTER ANALYSIS Frank E Harrell Jr provides some useful SAS macros and data www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/clusfaq.html step programs. From here you can also go to Rich Ulrich’s home page and his %SYSFUNC stat-FAQ. www.cyassociates.com/sysfunc.htm ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOK OF STATISTICS Chris Yindra of C. Y. Training Associates provides his paper for www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html %sysfunc(). If you don’t have a statistics book handy, then come here. TIPS FROM ROHRBOUGH SYSTEMS DESIGN LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS www.rohrbough-systems.com/code.htm http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jsuebersax/ Working utilities or programs in SAS or MS Office (mostly

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Access). USC Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics. www.rohrbough-systems.com/papers.htm SAS PUBLISHING DOCUMENTATION CENTER SAS V6.12 to V8.00 Conversion Issues. www1.fatbrain.com/documentation/sas/home.asp UNIFYPOW SAS USERS GROUPS NOT LISTED AT SAS INSTITUTE www.bio.ri.ccf.org/power.html HOME PAGE You can find Ralph O'Brien’s macro for Sample-Size Analysis. www.qlx.com/sugs.htm SAS Users Groups from Qualex Consulting Services, Inc. USAGE NOTES FOR THE $ZIPCODS FORMAT www.RTPnet.org/~rtsug/ www.oseda.missouri.edu/mscdc/sasfmats/zipcods.usgnote Research Triangle SAS Users Group. s www.synteract.com/sands/ John Blodgett posts a good notes here. San Diego’s SAS User’s Group. VIEWS SQL www.views-uk.demon.co.uk/index.htm The Independent UK SAS User Group provides newsletter for www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2207/sql1.html SAS tips and techniques. Introduction to Structured Query Language. www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/6696/learn_sql.ht USEFUL RESOURCES ml Introduction to Structured Query Language. AVIATION FORMULARY www.best.com/~williams/avform.html THE ART OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING (TAOCP) Ed Williams provides his paper for pilots (and others) that are http://Sunburn.Stanford.EDU/~knuth/taocp.html interested in great circle navigation. Donald E. Knuth’s book online here. DATA MINING www.twocrows.com/booklet.htm UNIX Data Mining Tutorial Booklet. www.geek-girl.com/Unixhelp/ IBM BOOKMANAGER® BOOKSERVER LIBRARY UNIXhelp for users. www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr- www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixin cgi/bookmgr.cmd/LIBRARY dex.html You can search books from here. A Basic UNIX Tutorial. JCL www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr- www.oase-shareware.org/shell/ Here you can find useful links about UNIX. cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/IEA1B505/CCONTENTS?SH E www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/unix/uni OS/390 V2R6.0 MVS JCL User's Guide. xintro/intro-8.html#HEADING8-0 www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr- Introduction to UNIX. cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/IEA1B605/CCONTENTS OS/390 V2R5.0 MVS JCL Reference. www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr- CONCLUSION The best way to discover the Internet and World Wide Web is on cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/IEA1B606/CCONTENTS?SH the Internet and surfing the World Wide Web. Because of the E page limit of this paper, a complete listing of resources is kept at OS/390 V2R6.0 MVS JCL Reference. www.geocities.com/prochelp. If you have some good www.uga.edu/ucns/hostsys/mvs/ibm-jcl-intro.html resources to share, please inform me. I will keep the listing Introduction to JCL objectives. updated. NUMERICAL RECIPES BOOKS www.nr.com/nronline_switcher.html REFERENCES SAS is a registered trademark or trademark of SAS Institute Inc. ORACLE FAQ in the USA and other countries.  indicates USA registration. www.orafaq.org/faq.htm This site provides useful information on Oracle products to the Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or Oracle community. trademarks of their respective companies. PHARMACOKINETIC AND PHARMACODYNAMIC http://pkpd.icon.palo-alto.med.va.gov/ CONTACT INFORMATION Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Software Server at Your comments and questions are valued and encouraged. the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Contact the author at: www.boomer.org/pkin/ Wei Cheng Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Resources. Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. www.clinpharmint.com/pks.htm 2292 Faraday Ave. Practical Pharmacokinetics Download page. Carlsbad, CA 92008 www.usc.edu/hsc/lab_apk/ Work Phone: (760) 603-3807

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