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Learning Statistics with SAS Enterprise Guide/ SAS On-Demand

Lately, I have been ignoring lots of good advice. I ignored the rocket scientist who told me I write too much about that statistical software thing whatever it is and that maybe I should write about javascript or something else of interest to a broader audience. I ignored my better instincts which told me loud…

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Changing SAS Enterprise Guide Data File

With the new SAS On-Demand for Academics, I presume there will be a lot of professors who have a teaching assistant, research assistant or intern preparing the data for examples for their classes. Or, you may be co-authoring a paper with one of your colleagues. Let’s suppose you are working on a SAS Enterprise Guide…

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Choosing the Right Propensity Score Method: A statistics fable

Once upon a time there were statisticians who thought the answer to everything was to be as precise, correct and “bleeding edge” as possible. If their analyses were precise to 12 decimal places instead of 5, of course they were better because as everyone knows , 12 is more than 5 (and statisticians knew it…