A gentle introduction to survival analysis: I. The language of survival analysis

This month was my 14th wedding anniversary. For some reason, a number of my close friends and relatives chose this occasion to tell me that they had bet this marriage would not last more than five years. Which got me to thinking about survival analysis …. (whether or not it should have gotten me to…

GUEST POST: Mental Health Outcome Statistics Saved my Life

I met Corinna when she was a member of the 1996 Olympic team. In the intervening 15 years she has had a battle with mental illness – or maybe I should say, the mental health system.  This article is re-posted, with permission, from her blog, where she writes about mental illness, mental health, motivational speaking,…

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Why you care about conditional distributions: The MRS degree explained

                      Getting an MRS degree is an effective strategy. You care about conditional distributions even if you don’t know what they are. When I was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis in the 1970s, nearly all of my friends (and the vast majority…

Categorical Data & Bivariate Descriptive Statistics

The Agresti and Finlay book,  Statistical methods in the social sciences , has a nice section on bivariate descriptive statistics.  (And thank you to the person on twitter who recommended that book. I apologize that I can’t remember who it was.) I got to thinking about that today, especially with regard to categorical data. Often…

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Ten Things about SAS On-Demand for Academics

1. It’s free. Some people say this is just the evil corporate answer to R. Maybe. Probably. I don’t care.  I don’t see Microsoft giving me anything for free. 2. It’s pretty easy for an instructor to get an account. I presume SAS verifies your instructor account. First you need a SAS Profile https://www.sas.com/profile/user/create.htm Then…