{"id":2678,"date":"2012-10-03T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:47:41","slug":"sas-editor-on-the-web-mac-lovers-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/sas-editor-on-the-web-mac-lovers-rejoice\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS Editor on the Web – Mac Lovers Rejoice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been somewhat of a fan of SAS On-Demand for Academics, but there are two problems. One is that it runs slow and the other is that it doesn’t run native on a Mac at all. Enter the SAS Web Editor.<\/p>\n

I just started using it yesterday and so far, I love it. It is in beta, so if you are interested, I suggest you contact the people in the academic division of SAS and get right on it.<\/p>\n

One glitch so far to be aware of –<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you re-load the page, it reloads everything. I wanted to clear the results, and when I reloaded the page, everything was cleared, including the code. Since I was just messing around it was no big deal, but if it was your assignment, you might be unhappy.<\/p>\n

Solution: Save your code often<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is something you just ought to be doing anyway, anywhere, as a good habit.<\/p>\n

Here is my sample code<\/p>\n

\/* Enter your code here *\/
\ndata test ;
\ninput group $ wt ;
\ncards ;
\naa 207
\nca 55
\n;
\nproc freq ;
\ntables group \/ binomial (p=.422 ac) ;
\nweight wt ;
\nrun;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and here is a link to my output which I just downloaded by clicking on the download<\/a> button. The code above tests whether the proportion of African-Americans stopped in 262 routing traffic stops is different than the population proportion of 42.2% . Through in confidence intervals for good measure.<\/p>\n

As I said, I’ve only been using this for less than 24 hours and I started with solving statistics homework problems. So far, it is awesome. Whether it will be equally awesome once I upload some data sets and try to run more complex statistics, who knows. So far, though<\/p>\n