Why use SAS as a statistical consultant?
If you’re the kind of statistical consultant that has a range of clients, the ability of SAS to easily read lots of data formats is a godsend for you.
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7 Tips to Not Getting Screwed by Your Data
First of all, I want to draw your attention to this retraction in the Journal of the American Medical Association and mad props to Drs. Aboumatar and Wise and John Hopkins for doing the right thing in publicly retracting it. For the TL; DR crowd Someone who is probably now unemployed miscoded the study groups…
2 tips to being a better programmer, if you can’t afford SAS Global Forum
I did a random sample of presentations at SAS Global Forum today, if random is defined as of interest to me, which let’s be honest, is pretty damn random most of the time. Tip #1 Stalk Interesting People I don’t mean in a creepy showing up at their hotel room way. If you see someone…
Pointy, Clicky Propensity Score Matching With SAS
Hopefully, you have read my Beginner’s Guide to Propensity Score matching or through some other means become aware of what the hell propensity score matching is. Okay, fine, how do you get those propensity scores? Think about this carefully for a moment, if you are using quintiles, you are matching people by which group they…
SAS vs SPSS for Teaching Multivariate Analysis in Social Sciences
I have to choose between either SAS or SPSS for a new course in multivariate statistics. You can take it up with the university if you like, but these are my only two options, in part because the course is starting soon. I need to decide in a few days which way to go. Here…
You May Not Know This About Old Age
When I was in my twenties, nearing the end of my competitive years, Dr. James Wooley dropped by the club to visit. If you aren’t into judo, you probably don’t recognize his name as a two-time Olympian. By the time I was competing on the international scene, he had retired from competition, married and was…
Statistics Answers the Most Important Social Question
Occasionally, when I am teaching about a topic like repeated measures Analysis of Variance, a brave student will raise a hand and ask, Seriously, professor, WHEN will I ever use this? The aspiring director of a library, clinic, afterschool program, etc. does not see how statistics apply to conducting an outreach campaign or HIV screening…
SAS Global Forum Random Post 1: Statistics
If you did not go to SAS Global Forum this week, here are some things you missed: Me, rambling on about the 13 techniques all biostatisticians should know, including the answer to: If McNemar and Kappa are both statistics for handling correlated, categorical data, how can they give you completely different results? The answer is…
What’s epidemiology? A definition with a side of SAS
I’ll be teaching a graduate course in epidemiology in the spring and giving a talk on biostatistics at SAS Global Forum in April, so I thought I’d jump ahead and start rambling on about it now. When I tell people that I teach epidemiology, the first question I usually get is, What’s epidemiology? In short,…
Why attending a software conference made me sad
I went to the Western Users of SAS Software conference last week and came home sad. It wasn’t for the reasons you’d guess. No one sexually harassed me (as if!). I did not forget how to code a confirmatory factor analysis in the middle of the pre-conference class I was teaching. The other statisticians didn’t…