Message-ID: <49A71E3D.5090603@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2009-02-26T22:57:01Z
From: Frank E Harrell Jr
Subject: Inefficiency of SAS Programming
If anyone wants to see a prime example of how inefficient it is to
program in SAS, take a look at the SAS programs provided by the US
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for risk adjusting and
reporting for hospital outcomes at
http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/software.htm . The PSSASP3.SAS
program is a prime example. Look at how you do a vector product in the
SAS macro language to evaluate predictions from a logistic regression
model. I estimate that using R would easily cut the programming time of
this set of programs by a factor of 4.
Frank
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University