SESUG 2009 Chronological Schedule
(Schedule is subject to change)

Sunday Morning, October 25

8:00
Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Statistics for Non-statisticians using SAS®
Johnson, 8:00–12:00 PM, WW-004

Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Advanced Reporting and Analysis Techniques: It's Not Just About the PROCS! Part I
Carpenter, 8:00–12:00 PM, WW-005

Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
ODS: The Basics and Beyond
Haworth, 8:00–12:00 PM, WW-008


Sunday Afternoon, October 25

1:00
Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Building Reusable Macro Tools with the SAS® Macro Language
Lafler, 1:00–5:00 PM, WW-001

Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Adding SQL to Your SAS® Programming Repertoire
Repole, 1:00–5:00 PM, WW-002

Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Advanced Reporting and Analysis Techniques: It's Not Just About the PROCS! Part II
Carpenter, 1:00–5:00 PM, WW-006


Monday Morning, October 26

8:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Customer Retention Predictive Modeling in HealthCare Insurance Industry
Su, Cooper, Robinson, Jordan, 8:00–8:20 AM, AD-007

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
DATA Step versus PROC SQL Programming Techniques
Lafler, 8:00–8:50 AM, FF-003

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
SAS® Add in to MS Office - A Tutorial
Hall, 8:00–9:15 AM, HOW-004

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Advanced Topics in ODS
Haworth, 8:00–8:50 AM, RV-010

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
ODS Packages: Putting Some Zip in Your ODS Output
Gebhart, 8:00–8:50 AM, SC-012

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Biosurveillance to Improve Early Event Detection
Gann, 8:00–8:20 AM, SD-017

8:30
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Importing Complicated Excel Files into SAS® Drug Development (SDD)
Murphy, Steffens, 8:30–8:50 AM, AD-009

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
SAS® and Clinical IVRS: Beyond Schedule Creation
Flynn, 8:30–8:50 AM, SD-001

9:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
High Performance Analytics with In-Database Processing
Brobst, Kent, 9:00–9:50 AM, AD-001

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Implementing User-Friendly Macro Systems
Heaton, Woodruff, 9:00–9:50 AM, FF-006

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Stop light reporting with Proc Report
Richardson, 9:00–9:20 AM, RV-009

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Source Code Documentation: When Comments Get in the Way
Myers, Chiflikyan, 9:00–9:20 AM, SC-006

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Getting Correct Results from PROC REG
Derby, 9:00–9:50 AM, SD-006

9:30
Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
More Tips and Tricks for Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
DelGobbo, 9:30–10:45 AM, HOW-002

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
No More Downloading - Using SAS/ODS ® to Create Web Reports for z/OS - Updated for V9
Wingfield, 9:30–10:20 AM, RV-002

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Cr8_In_List - Easy Table Driven Programming
Sanders, 9:30–9:50 AM, SC-007

10:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
From Obscurity to Utility: ADDR, PEEK, POKE as DATA Step Programming Tools
Dorfman, 10:00–10:50 AM, AD-008

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
A Serious Look Macro Quoting
Whitlock, 10:00–10:50 AM, FF-009

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Going Postal - Automating Distribution of Formatted Reports Using Base SAS®
DeCanio, 10:00–10:20 AM, SC-004

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
An Easy and Convenient Method for Constructing Contrasts
Vogel, 10:00–10:20 AM, SD-013

10:30
Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Using ODS Select to Limit SAS® Output
Reich, 10:30–10:50 AM, RV-003

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
SCL is Gone, How Do I Get Variables From My Users Into SAS Enterprise Guide®?
Hettinger, 10:30–10:50 AM, SC-010

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
A Logistic Regression Model to Predict Freshmen Enrollments
Sampath, Flagel, Figueroa, 10:30–10:50 AM, SD-016

11:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Maximum SAS®: Analyzing and Increasing Performance
Chandler, 11:00–11:50 AM, AD-011

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Looking Beneath the Surface of Sorting
Kuligowski, 11:00–11:50 AM, FF-005

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
Graphing the Easy Way with SAS® Enterprise Guide® (or How to Look Good With Less Effort)
Thompson, 11:00–11:50 AM, HOW-007

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Pleasing the Client: Creating Custom Reports with SAS® ODS Layout and Proc Report
Okerson, 11:00–11:20 AM, RV-008

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Boot Camp for Programmers: Stuff You Need to Know That's Not in the Manual - Best Practices to Help Us Achieve Reproducibility
Axelrod, 11:00–11:50 AM, SC-009

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Enrollment Simulation in Clinical Trials: How Better Estimates Save Time and Money
DePuy, 11:00–11:20 AM, SD-009

11:30
Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Export Customized Graphs Directly into Microsoft Word Using Dynamic Data Exchange
Beal, 11:30–11:50 AM, RV-006

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
A New Effect Modification P Value Test Demonstrated
Agravat, 11:30–11:50 AM, SD-018


Monday Afternoon, October 26

1:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
SAS Macro - Basic Design Issues
Whitlock, 1:00–1:50 PM, AD-012

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Your Friend - Custom Formats
Richardson, 1:00–1:20 PM, FF-002

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
The SAS® Hash Object in Action
Dorfman, 1:00–2:15 PM, HOW-009

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Inline Formatting with ODS Markup
Gebhart, 1:00–1:50 PM, RV-013

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
THINK Before You Type… Best Practices Learned the Hard Way
Fecht, 1:00–1:50 PM, SC-005

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Methods, Models, and More: New Analyses Available with SAS/STAT® 9.
Stokes, 1:00–1:50 PM, SD-015

1:30
Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
A Real Case Use of the Data Step Debugger
Cunningham, 1:30–1:50 PM, FF-008

2:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Resolving Value Differences among Duplicates, A Rule-based Approach
Abbott, Grambow, Jackson, Melton, 2:00–2:20 PM, AD-006

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Getting from SAS® 9.1.3 to SAS® 9.2: Migration Tools or Promotion Tools
Hatcher, 2:00–2:50 PM, FF-012

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Using the EXCELXP tagset and DDE to create At-A-Glance Summary Spreadsheets--Compiled, Written, and Formatted with one SAS® click!
Kraft, 2:00–2:50 PM, RV-011

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
An Approach to Creating Archives That Minimize Storage Requirements
Chiflikyan, Grubbs, 2:00–2:20 PM, SC-008

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
The Use of SAS® in MetaAnalysis
Butterfield, 2:00–2:50 PM, SD-012

2:30
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Supporting a SAS® Server Architecture
Hall, 2:30–2:50 PM, AD-005

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
Advanced PROC REPORT: Getting Your Tables Connected Using Links
Carpenter, 2:30–3:45 PM, HOW-003

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
PROC MIXED: Macro to Assess Fixed and Random Effects for Significance Using the Likelihood Ratio Test and the Approximate Mixture Method
Bardenheier, 2:30–2:50 PM, SC-013

3:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Use SAS to Check Misspelled Words in Excel Files
Shih, Meng, Henry, Chang, Fan, 3:00–3:20 PM, AD-002

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Industrial Strength Analytics: A Brief Overview of SAS/OR®
Maddox, 3:00–3:20 PM, FF-010

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Tips and Tricks IV: More SAS/GRAPH® Map Secrets
Phillips, 3:00–3:50 PM, RV-012

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Using Formats, MP Connect®, and Other SAS® Efficiency Techniques to save Time and Disk Space
GOBER, 3:00–3:50 PM, SC-001

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
A Monte Carlo Study to Evaluate the Robust Standard Error Feature in PHREG procedure
Li, Zhang, 3:00–3:20 PM, SD-003

3:30
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
No More Blue Screens - Running SAS on Windows Servers
Ellwood, 3:30–3:50 PM, AD-004

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Labels, Labels, and More Labels
Thompson, 3:30–3:50 PM, FF-007

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Quartile Conundrum
Guldin, Zhang, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-001

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Mapping Nested e-CRF Data into SDTM Domains
bhamidipati, Garner, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-002

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Matching SAS® Data Sets with PROC SQL: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Match, Match Again
Go, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-003

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Using SAS® to Explain Mediator and Moderator Effect for Social Support of Mothers of Mentally Ill Children
Tavakoli, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-004

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Using SAS® to Explore the Impact of a Care Management Maternity Program
Okerson, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-005

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
IS DIFFERENCES IN MARITAL STATUS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR KAP RELATED TO HIV/AIDS IN SAONER RURAL AREA?
Kamdi, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-006

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
A Modular Approach to Develop Complex Data Errors Checking Program in Clinical Trial Environment
Stojanovic, Archer, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-007

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
A Macro for Computing the Mantel-Fleiss Criterion
Welch, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-008

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Building Effective Statistical Programming Teams for Clinical Trials
Edgerton, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-010

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
MIXED_DX: A SAS® Macro for Two-Level Linear Model Diagnostics
Bell, Morgan, Schoeneberger, Ferron, Kromrey, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-013

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
A SYSTEM TO STANDARDIZE CREATING FILES USING VISUAL BASIC 6.0 AND SAS® AUTOMATION
Chiflikyan, Kinsey, Medeiros, Richardson, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-014

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Constructing Baseline of Customer’s Hourly Electric Usage in SAS
Xiao, Bolen, Cunningham, Xu, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-015

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
ODS Graphics Designer
Matange, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-016

Posters, East Hall, Level 3, Lobby
Graphs in Flash, using Graph Template Language (GTL)
Patel, 3:30–4:30 PM, PO-017

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Developing Business Failure Prediction Models Using SAS® Software
Kim, 3:30–3:50 PM, SD-004

4:00
Applications Development, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Putting lipstick on legacy SAS code
Chandler, 4:00–4:50 PM, AD-013

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Navigating the SAS Business Intelligence Client Tools
Hall, 4:00–4:20 PM, FF-013

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
A Hands-on Tour Inside the World of PROC SQL®
Lafler, 4:00–5:15 PM, HOW-006

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Resetting Accumulator Variables to Zero
Heaton, 4:00–4:20 PM, SC-011

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Estimation of Coefficients of Individual Agreement (CIAs) for Quantitative and Binary Data using SAS and R
Pan, 4:00–4:20 PM, SD-005

4:30
Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room F
Tips for Moving to SAS® Enterprise Guide® on Unix
Hettinger, 4:30–4:50 PM, FF-014

Simple but Clever, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Taking the PROC FREQ a Step Beyond
Heath, Suresh, 4:30–4:50 PM, SC-002


Tuesday Morning, October 27

8:00
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Daunting Tasks Made Simple with Input Techniques and Macro Processing
Kruse, 8:00–8:10 AM, CC-005

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Don't Be a SAS® Dinosaur: Modernizing Programs with Base SAS® 9.2 Enhancements
Repole, 8:00–8:50 AM, FF-011

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
How to Use ARRAYs and DO Loops: Do I DO OVER or Do I DO i?
Waller, 8:00–9:15 AM, HOW-001

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Jittering: A SAS® Macro to Shift Overlapping Plots
Baker, Gray, 8:00–8:20 AM, SD-002

8:15
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Multiple Imputation for Survey Data Analysis
Ye, 8:15–8:25 AM, CC-016

8:30
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Adapt to Change of Table Numbers in Deliverable with One Click
Shih, Meng, Fan, Chang, 8:30–8:40 AM, CC-004

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Notes from an Intersection: Google Earth @ SAS®
Martell, 8:30–9:20 AM, RV-001

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
The Effect of Missing Data on Repeated Measures Models
Johnson, 8:30–9:20 AM, SD-008

8:45
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
True or False: Evaluating Logical expressions
Fehd, 8:45–8:55 AM, CC-013

9:00
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
A SAS Macro for Deming Regression
Deal, Pate, Howard, El Rouby, 9:00–9:10 AM, CC-014

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
A Little Stats Won't Hurt You
Derby, 9:00–9:50 AM, FF-001

9:15
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
SAS Macro Autocall and %Include
Huang, Lin, 9:15–9:25 AM, CC-019

9:30
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
A SAS Macro to Automate the Process of Define.xml
Hu, Zhang, 9:30–9:40 AM, CC-009

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
List Processing Basics: Creating and Using Lists of Macro Variables
Carpenter, Fehd, 9:30–10:45 AM, HOW-008

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Integrating Geocode Data from the Google Map API and SAS/GRAPH®
Trahan, Nguyen, Allred, Jayaram, 9:30–9:50 AM, RV-007

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Imputation for Censored Observations in Survival Studies Allowing for a Positive Cure Rate
Cantor, 9:30–9:50 AM, SD-007

9:45
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
A User-Friendly Macro for Last Observation Carried Forward
Shih, Chang, Henry, Meng, Fan, 9:45–9:55 AM, CC-003

10:00
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
A Macro to Unravel Macros
Woodruff, 10:00–10:10 AM, CC-002

Foundations and Fundamentals, East Hall, Level 3, Room G
Handling Dates in the Macro Facility
dunn, 10:00–10:50 AM, FF-004

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Cool Maps with Custom Areas
SEKAR, 10:00–10:50 AM, RV-005

Statistics and Data Analysis, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
An Introduction to SAS/IML® Studio for SAS/STAT® Users
Wicklin, 10:00–12:00 PM, SD-014

10:15
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Utilizing the SAS Macro Facility to Interface with PROC COMPARE
Adams, 10:15–10:25 AM, CC-015

10:30
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Short, Sweet and Simple...how to do more with less in SAS
Spruell, 10:30–10:40 AM, CC-006

10:45
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
A Simple SAS Utility to Dynamically Create Variable Names
Chien, Handley, Felts, Mai, 10:45–10:55 AM, CC-008

11:00
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Macro Solution to Oracle Limitation
Cunningham, 11:00–11:10 AM, CC-010

Hands - On Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room I&J (HoW)
Streamlining Data Analysis
van Santen, 11:00–11:50 AM, HOW-005

Reporting and Information Visualization, East Hall, Level 3, Room L
Exploring JMP® 8 Integration with SAS® 9.2: A Rich Set of Development Tools for the Analytic/Dynamic Report Application Developer
Vorburger, 11:00–11:50 AM, RV-014

11:15
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Exchanging data between SAS and Microsoft Excel
Xiao, 11:15–11:25 AM, CC-011

11:30
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Macro to Retain Group Variable Names in PROC REPORT's ODS RTF Outputs
Naalla, 11:30–11:40 AM, CC-012

11:45
Coders' Corner, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
Exploring SAS PROC CDISC Model=ODM and its Undocumented Parameters
Valkanova, Droll, 11:45–11:55 AM, CC-018


Tuesday Afternoon, October 27

1:00
Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room E
SAS® Performance Tuning Techniques
Lafler, 1:00–5:00 PM, WW-003

Conference Workshops, East Hall, Level 3, Room D
Getting the Most from SAS® Formats
Carpenter, 1:00–5:00 PM, WW-007