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