The Mplus website has free videos on using Mplus. The introductory course (not very introductory, really, because the the main topics are advanced factor analysis and structural equation modeling) has some pretty good resources. While it is not professional quality – just a video of a class – and much of it is beyond the…
I’m sitting by the pool at my sister’s house typing this on my iPad keyboard. I’m using the iPad for three reasons. My laptop, which I seldom run in boot camp, is now installing umpteen updates before it re-starts in Mac OS I’m supposed to not be typing so much because a combination of working…
When I started dating my late husband, I was a 26-year-old engineer and he was 44-year-old manager. In addition to forever losing any possibility of criticizing age differences for any boyfriends our daughters might bring home, it also means that he had a view on life that I often did not appreciate until years later….
Five more things I have learned in almost 55 years. Jealousy is bad for you. Scrupulous honesty about your motives will pay off. Much negative criticism stems from jealousy. Yes, employers ARE right to turn you down because you are over-qualified. Don’t take it personally but DO take it seriously. I am on a roll…
My saga on uploading and reading an older data set into SAS Web Editor 1. Use FTP to upload So, I did get my data uploaded to SAS Web Editor using ftp. Little hint here, if you are using Filezilla and having trouble connecting, check to make sure that Filezilla is not using sftp. Sometimes…
After dropping The Spoiled One off at the beach and setting a personal best for calls returned, I’m back on setting up data sets, assignments and more for the fall semester. So ….. I tried using the UPLOAD option from the menu in the SAS Web Editor and that was a sad failure. Next, I…
With three children under age six while I was writing my dissertation, I learned never to leave things until the last minute because that is EXACTLY when two of them would come down with the chicken pox. That’s why I’m working on assignments, lectures and videos for fall semester now. I was asked to teach…
I travel A LOT for business. This occurred to me today as I realized I knew where to find an outlet in the one restaurant in the Grand Forks International Airport. (It is international because the have a couple of flights two and from Canada, which is about 80 miles due north and it is…