Went to the “See it in SPSS” event at the Westin Bonaventure this week and, as always, it was well done. The two most interesting parts, based on a non-random sample of one, i.e., me, were: What’s new in SPSS (besides the fact that it is now called PASW and owned by IBM)? And the…
You know how some days everyone just seems put on this earth for the express purpose of getting on your last nerve? Well, today was the opposite of those days. Even before I got to the WUSS (Western Users of SAS Software) in San Jose, I was surrounded by smart people. My wonderful colleagues at…
“I try to take it one day at a time, but lately several days have attacked me at once.” If Erma Bombeck wasn’t really the first to say that, she could have been. I shouldn’t complain. Part of my overly full days are that I have one more child than Erma did and the same…
I’ve been asked several times what made me change my mind about SAS Enterprise Guide. SAS EG and my husband have a lot in common. For one thing, neither made a great first impression. When I first met Dennis and saw that he was the same size as me (which my third daughter says is…
Whether you are a statistician, SPSS guru, SAS programmer or professor and world-renowned expert on re-incarceration, odds are great that you are susceptible to bubble-vision. You work, breathe and socialize within one or two very narrow bubbles. This is bad and unhealthy. You’ll miss much of life that is beautiful, exciting, dramatic, interesting, tragic and…
Here is how the Wald statistic works: You divide the maximum likelihood coefficient estimate by its standard error and square the result. If you wanted to be really specific about it, what you are dividing is the difference between the obtained coefficient estimate and your hypothesized estimate. I would say, though, that 99% of the…
Because I am no fun at all, as any of my children can tell you, I do not have a post for April Fool’s Day (although you should totally check out the blog on SAS for the Wii ). Being counter-cyclical can be good at times, for example, making money on your investments last year….
All right, well maybe they are not that secret, but there are some really great resources out there that you may want to check out. If you didn’t get to the SPSS Higher Education Road Show at UCLA because rush hour in Los Angeles is from 7-9, 4-6 and any time you are on the…
You know that feeling after Thanksgiving dinner when you have had all of your favorite foods all at once and are so full that you think you will never eat again. Well, the past week has left my brain like that. Within twelve days, I attended the SPSS Higher Education Road Show at UCLA, then…
Since I have written about odds ratios and logs lately, I was going to write about the natural log of the odds ratio, however, random events have caused me to do otherwise. I read an interesting blog by Adam Jackson lately, in which he is concerned that robots will take over the world. At the…