SAS History SAS was founded in 1976 to help a wide range of customers‚ from pharmaceutical companies and banks to academic and governmental entities. SAS originally emerged as a program called the Statistical Analysis System. The program was developed in 1966 at North Carolina State University under a grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze vast amounts of agricultural data collected through the United States Department of Agriculture. The early leaders of the project were NCSU
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I. Introduction Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received greatly attention in the media in recent times partly due to the poor financial performance in the past years. The purpose of this paper is to analysis the corporate governance model of the company SAS‚ and identify the key corporate issues that may be behind the bad performance that the company is undergoing. The airline industry is especially sensible to business cycles and the financial crisis bit it hard. That is why in order to develop
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Introductions This article is about SAS Company which operates much differently than other companies. SAS software was originally created by Goodnight and North Carolina State University colleagues to analyze agricultural-research data. Today‚ SAS is best known for sifting massive mountains of data for FORTUNE 500 companies and other organizations most people have heard of. Insurance companies use SAS to flag fraudulent claims. Retailers use SAS to find profitable places to put stores and products
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Distribution decisions Lesson 3 Objectives • Explain why companies use marketing channels and discuss the functions these channels perform. • Discuss how channel members interact and how they organize to perform the work of the channel. • • Identify the major channel alternatives open to a company. • Discuss the nature and importance of marketing logistics and integrated supply chain management. • Discuss the future of retailing Explain how companies select‚ motivate‚ and evaluate channel
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Grand Strategies Grand strategies are also called strategic thrusts. They provide basic direction for specific strategic actions and functional tactics. Some grand strategies are used together and reinforce each other and some are usually employed singly. Grand Strategy General plan of major action to achieve longterm goals Falls into three general categories 1. Growth 2. Stability A separate grand strategy can be 3. Retrenchment defined for global operations Grand Strategy:
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Avon Products‚ Inc. This paper aims to present the two sides of the grand strategy by Avon in increasing its sales through the expansion of its distribution and capturing a large market in the industry. Avon Products‚ Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of personal care products‚ including skin-care‚ hair care‚ color cosmetics‚ fragrances‚ personal hygiene‚ and a limited line of non-personal care products such as jewelry‚ apparel‚ decorative and home entertainment products and a provider of spa
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Using IF THEN ELSE statements‚ LENGTH is to be use so that the new coloum create (Patient) will have defined length that is $12. data newclass; set sashelp.class; length Patient $12.; If weight <=84 then Patient= ’UnderWeight ’; else If weight >84 and weight <=100 then Patient= ’ProperWeight ’; else If weight >100 then Patient= ’OverWeight ’; else Patient= ’OutLier ’; run; ====================================================================== SELECT WHEN END statement
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except true love.” The Grand Inquisitor‚ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky‚ is a chapter from The Brothers Karamazov. It is about the time when Jesus Christ comes down to earth and gets caught by the Grand Inquisitor‚ where He gets blamed for providing people freedom to choose. The two characters‚ Jesus Christ and the Grand Inquisitor‚ have two antithetical viewpoints about freedom. Based on their reasonings‚ we can discern both of them as good or evil characters. In my opinion‚ the Grand Inquisitor can be considered
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to become attached to certain activities‚ clubs‚ friends‚ etc. Moving around also‚ does not mean they have to leave the city. They could be moving to a different neighborhood within the town. For example‚ when I was younger I used to live in town Grand Mound‚ Iowa. When I was around six years old‚ my family moved right outside
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MFE 6390 Spring 2013 Residual analysis in SAS (continued) In the previous two lectures‚ we learnt how to obtain the residuals of the estimation and to formally test for heteroscedasticity in the model. In this lecture‚ we will focus on testing the model errors for serial correlation. Recall that‚ in order to make valid inferences using the linear regression estimates‚ we need the errors of the model (i.e. residuals) to
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