The first things a statistical consultant needs to know

I’ll be speaking about being a statistical consultant at SAS Global Forum in D.C. in March/ April. While I will be talking a little bit about factor analysis, repeated measures ANOVA and logistic regression, that is the end of my talk. The first things a statistical consultant should know don’t have much to do with…

7 Tips to Not Getting Screwed by Your Data
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7 Tips to Not Getting Screwed by Your Data

First of all, I want to draw your attention to this retraction in the Journal of the American Medical Association and mad props to Drs. Aboumatar and Wise and John Hopkins for doing the right thing in publicly retracting it. For the TL; DR crowd Someone who is probably now unemployed miscoded the study groups…

30 Things I Learned in 30 Years as a Statistical Consultant – Part 1 of lots
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30 Things I Learned in 30 Years as a Statistical Consultant – Part 1 of lots

Never fear, I’m not going to post all 30 things in this post. This is a series. A LONG series. Get excited. I was invited to speak at SAS Global Forum next year and it occurred to me after thinking about it for 14.2 seconds that there are plenty of people at SAS and elsewhere…

Reusable Blocks are the best thing about Gutenberg

Reusable Blocks are the best thing about Gutenberg

What are reusable blocks and why do you want to use them? This can best be explained by an example. Over at 7 Generation Games, we have a new project under way to create organize the hundreds of videos, presentations and activities we’ve developed with our games into a teacher resource site. Most of these…