SAS Halifax Regional User Group Meeting
The spring meeting of the SAS Halifax Regional User Group (SHRUG) will take place:
Date: Friday April 29, 2011 (7:45 am - 11:30 am)
Location: The Halifax Club, 1682 Hollis St, Halifax http://www.halifaxclub.ns.ca/
A buffet breakfast will be provided from 7:45 - 8:15 am.
Hope to see you there.
Jo-Anne Douglas
SHRUG Executive
http://www.shrugonline.ca/
Agenda
Breakfast Buffet 7:45 am to 8:15 am
Welcome & Introductions 8:15 am to 8:20 am
Determining Nursing Inflow-Outflow in NS 8:20 am to 8:35 am
Hussain Jamshidi, Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness
Survival Analysis using SAS 8:35 am to 8:50 am
Kara Thompson, Research Office, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Using SAS Classification And Regression Tree (CART) analysis 8:50 am to 9:30 am
Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
Data holdings at Atlantic Research Data Centre (ARDC) 9:30 am to 9:45 am
Heather Hobson, Atlantic Research Data Centre, Dalhousie University
Techie Tip 9:45 am to 9:50 am
BAD WORD: Finding & Eliminating Rogue Hex Characters in Text Fields.
Martha Cox, Cancer Outcomes Research Group, CDHA/CCNS
Networking and Break 9:50 am to 10:15 am
An Intro to Debugging 10:15 am to 10:35 am
Martha Cox, Cancer Outcomes Research Group, CDHA/CCNS
SAS Update 10:35 am to 10:45 am
Matt Malczewski, Communities Manager, SAS Canada
Reporting using EG : Newbie overcomes love of punch cards 10:45 am to 11:00 am
John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
NESUG in Portland ME 11:00 am to 11:05 am
John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
Wrap-up and Prizes 11:05 am to 11:15 am
Jo-Anne Douglas
Research & Statistical Officer
Health Information Office
Business Intelligence, Analytics & Privacy
Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness
A: 5161 George St. Suite 500, PO Box 488, Halifax NS B3J 2R8
T: 902 424 2550 | F: 902 424 0506 | E: Jo-Anne.Douglas@gov.ns.ca
Visit the NS Dept of Health Wait Time website at:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/health/waittimes
