Last post, I talked about bricolage, the fine art of throwing random stuff together to make something useful. This is something of a philosophy of life for me. Seems rambling but it’s not … Over 30 years ago, I was the first American to win the world judo championships. A few years ago, I co-authored…
I thought the title of Al Franken’s book , The Truth, with jokes , was great and I wanted to do something just like it. Unfortunately, I’m not that funny. Often, the discussion comes up among colleagues whether it is better for one’s career to be a specialist or a generalist. It’s a little (a…
Little known fact (because, seriously, how would you know) , I write a lot of code while sitting on a plane and I can’t always connect to the Internet. NOT ALL QUOTATION MARKS ARE CREATED EQUAL Sometimes, when I copy and paste my code into SAS Studio, it doesn’t work. if compress(q23) = “3/4” then…
I read a comment on line saying SAS probably would not disappear as an option for statistical analysis because “it’s good when you need to do a lot of data manipulation”. I wonder what world those people live in that data comes all cleanly packaged and whether they have unicorns there. Back on Planet Earth,…
A while back, I wrote a post on getting your Excel data into SAS Studio the quick and easy way. However, I hear you saying, What about ME? What about MY needs? What if I don’t want my data written to the working directory? What if my file has the names at the top and…
Once every year, I teach an actual course, not a workshop or professional development, but a class with 20 – 40 students. One where I need to write a syllabus, have lectures, papers to grade, homework and exams. Now, I’m not comparing teaching masters or doctoral students 3- 6 hours a week to my friends…
It may not be the secret to great joy but it is certainly the secret to avoiding unhappiness and it is simply this: The absence of self-ruminative thoughts. I’d like to claim the idea was originally mine but the truth is I first heard this phrase over a decade ago in a talk by Albert Bandura…
So, after three posts of recoding, creating scales, checking reliability and distributional assumptions we have arrived at MANOVA. If you skipped those three posts, feel shame at trying to take shortcuts, go back and read them. Before we dive into coding, let’s take a look at some basic background on MANOVA. The difference between ANOVA…
Where is the Multivariate Analysis of Variance ? You promised there would be MANOVA ! Now we’re in the third post! First there was recoding of variables. Then, there was creating scales. Now, we’re looking at reliability. Patience is a virtue. Before we get to doing a MANOVA we want to be sure that our…
Last time, we saw how to recode variables to score answers correct or incorrect, on a rating scale and weighted by importance. Today, we’re going to look at creating some scales from those variables because for reasons I’m sure I have written about at some point in the past, single items are usually not very…