Howard: Why not follow the protocol of a typical peer-reviewed journal? S

-----Original Message----- From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:05 PM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: www.sascommunity.org

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:05 -0400, Sigurd Hermansen <HERMANS1@WESTAT.COM> wrote:

>Lex: >... and we appreciate the simplicity of the site and the power that it >gives users. It would help to be able to archive PowerPoint or other >documents and link them to a conference paper. > >While I have you on the line, I'd appreciate hearing how to handle >corrections of or errata for a SGF paper. During preparation of >expanded Evaluating Predictive Modeling papers for SESUG 2008 (Mining >the Past, Seeing the Future section), I noticed an error in the summary

>version of the concordance c macro program in the paper. It amounts to >but a one-character error, but it produces a smaller than correct c >statistic value when summaries of outcomes and predictions have larger >multiples and larger than correct c statistic value when summaries have

>few or small multiples. > >I believe that I have seen corrected versions of papers in the past, >but can't locate one now as an example. Please advise how to initiate a

>correction. Thanks, >S

Remember that for the most part the conference papers are not hosted at lexjansen.com. Rather they are at sas.com, nesug.org, etc.

Something else to ponder: What if the correction is put forth by someone other than the original author(s)?

> >-----Original Message----- >From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of >Lex Jansen >Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:28 PM >To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU >Subject: Re: www.sascommunity.org > > >My site (www.lexjansen.com) is by design not a SAS community site. The >proceedings part is simply a user interface to SAS conference >proceedings (partly hosted by me), mashed up with Google search. I like

>to keep it that simple. A thing that I have been thinking about adding >is that authors could add Powerpoints, codes, ... I have not found a >good way of doing this yet, other then solliciting for it on SAS-L >(which hardly gives any response). > >Lex > > >On Jul 29, 10:35 am, mlhow...@avalon.net (Mary) wrote: >> >> Perhaps we could persuade Lex to rename his site to be >> =www.sascommunity.org, and perhaps to have him add other articles >> that > >> = aren't formal papers, and that would be a very useful tool. I'm a >> = > >> little dubious of Wiki being able to be as useful as that, but I >> think > >> = that comes from my frustration at it being very difficult to even >> add my = SAS tutorial to it. >> >> -Mary >> >> ----- Original Message -----=20 >> From: Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>=20 >> To: SA...@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU=20 >> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:03 PM >> Subject: Re: OT:www.sascommunity.org >> >> >> http://lexjansen.com/ >> >> The underlying resource is the collective proceedings archives of >the >> various SAS user conferences. What Lex notably adds is an excellent

>> = front >> end for browsing and searching. >> >> I consider a search of conference proceedings to be in nature and =

>> purpose >> somewhat different from a help-desk or knowledge base sort of = >> question. >>