Vancouver SAS User Group Meeting – Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Are you a user of SAS software in Metro Vancouver? If so, join us at the next Vancouver SAS User Group (VanSUG) meeting at the BC Cancer Research Centre (675 West 10th Ave) on Wednesday, May 27! This will be a great opportunity to learn from other SAS users and network with other analytics professionals. This meeting is free, and a scrumptious breakfast will be served. Hope to see you there!

Visit our web site to register for the meeting.  Here is the agenda:

8:30 – 9:00am: Registration

9:00 – 9:20am: Update from SAS (Matt Joyce, SAS Canada)

9:20 – 9:50am: Competing Risk Survival Analysis Using PHREG in SAS 9.4 (Lovedeep Gondara, BC Cancer Agency)

9:50 – 10:20am: Switching to Enterprise Guide: Pros and Cons (Guillaume Colley, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS)

10:20 – 10:45am: Networking Break

10:45 – 11:05am: Basics of Proc Tabulate (Anky Lai, BC Cancer Agency)

11:05 – 11:35am: Modeling Interactions and the Use of the CONTRAST Statement for Post-Fitting Comparisons (Huiru Dong, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS)

11:35 – 12:15pm: Automating Your Metadata Reporting (Darryl Prebble, Prebble Consulting Inc.)

12:15 – 12:30pm: Evaluations, Prize Draw & Closing Remarks