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Web editor is not only free but it will write your program for you

If that sounds like total marketing b.s. to you, I can’t blame you — download this app and supermodels will throw themselves at you with thousand dollar bills in their teeth. Well, no super models are provided but the SAS Web Editor really *will* write your code for you in the latest version soon to…

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The QUANTLIFE procedure for survival analysis

Trying this live blogging from SAS Global Forum again. The title kind of says it PROC QUANTLIFE new procedure in SAS 9.3 Why DO we need a new procedure for survival analysis? ====== Survival analysis used to analyze time-to-event data already had procs lifetes, lifereg & phreg ======== Lifereg is fine if you have IID…

Rumination is for cows: #18 of 55 things I have learned

Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Albert Bandura, arguably the greatest living psychologist. To almost anyone who ever took an undergraduate psychology course, he is best remembered for his Bobo doll study, where he found that young children who observed aggressive behavior being reinforced (on a doll), were more…

Since when does experienced = out-of-date ?

While I agree with  much of what entrepreneur/ professor/ author Vivek Wadhwa writes, I think his latest article in the Wall Street Journal is a little off target. He says, Why would any company pay a computer programmer with out-of-date skills a salary of say $150,000, when it can hire a fresh graduate — who…