Last week I mentioned a problem with scoring questions when each of dozens of true/ false questions had not been scored true or false (as one might think) or 1 or 0 (as one might think in mathematical terms) but, no, in some bizarre Alice in Wonderland mushroom-eating logic, each question was recorded as the…
Programming is NOT mostly about writing code. It’s mostly about figuring out how to solve a problem. Here is an example from yesterday…. HOW TO SCORE QUESTIONS WHEN THE ANSWERS ARE IN MULTIPLE VARIABLES I downloaded an SPSS file from surveymonkey which a client had used to collect data. I then output that as a…
Last year, one of my very young doctoral students (who was single), commented in class that she was sure women with more education were less likely to get married. Two older women in the class agreed that was probably true because women with more education were less likely to settle for just any man who…
Every day, I get email asking me if I am interested in some affiliate program, link exchange, blah, blah, blah. Obviously, these people do not read my blog because I personally would question the wisdom of affiliating oneself with a person who has called a congressman a lying ass mother-fucker (I was right, too) and…
Continuing to learn Advanced SAS from the Propensity Score Matching with Calipers macro from Feng, Yu & Xu , we take our data set we created by doing a principal components analysis on the cases (experimental) group, using the coefficients from that analysis to score every record in our control group, concatenating the cases and controls,…
This is part 3 (hence the name) of my posts on how to learn advanced SAS from other people’s code. Yes, taking a class is a good idea – I have taken several – a couple from SAS Institute here and there, several before or after conferences like WUSS and SAS Global Forum. For me,…
Okay, where we left off on the propensity score macro from Feng, Wu and Xu and the nifty things you can learn from reading someone else’s code, in this case, their propensity score macro with calipers …. We previously dealt with the situation where you had no matches and exactly one match. If you find…
We had a cat named Beijing. “Had” is the key word in that sentence. This weekend I dropped Bejing off to live with my daughter, Jenn, who actually likes cats in general and this cat in particular. The main reason (besides that Jenn wanted her) is that the cat always wanted to sit on my…
I thought my day today would be easy. There is a FUZZY module that goes with the SPSS integration for Python. All I needed to do was install the SPSS Python Integration technologies, then, maybe install the fuzzy plug in and it would all work. Both the rocket scientist and I worked on this most…
I was using a macro this week written by Feng, Yu & Xu and there were so many less-used and advanced techniques in it I thought it would be a great example to use for teaching SAS. ** ** Nifty thing one computing the caliper width ***** ; Like with other propensity score macros, it…