If you had SAS On-Demand for Academics installed last year and you want to continue using it in the new academic year, you need to uninstall your previous version and install the new version. You can find more details here – http://support.sas.com/ondemand/SAS93.html Okay, so I uninstalled the previous version of Enterprise Guide no problem. The SAS…
Propensity score matching has had a huge rise in popularity over the past few years. That isn’t a terrible thing, but in my not so humble opinion, many people are jumping on the bandwagon without thinking through if this is what they really need to do. The idea is quite simple – you have two…
As statisticians, we like to say that statistics is everywhere. Here is an example. Regular readers of this blog might know that my darling daughter number three is the world champion in mixed martial arts. There is a very wide gap in the general discourse at mixed martial arts events and, say, the Joint Statistical…
I’m not really swearing in the title of this post because I am not so much angry as sad. I have been reviewing grant proposals recently. Generally, I hate reviewing proposals because the pay is minimal relative to the time you put in, there are usually a lot to be read in a short time,…
The Rocket Scientist and I just had our first martini in days. Actually, one of us (cough * me * cough) is not a big drinker, but still … Alcohol is against tribal law and I do believe in respecting the customs anywhere I am visiting. If I can’t respect your customs, I won’t go…
Yesterday, I posted how to get SPSS Integration Technologies with Python working on the Mac. Today, I received this certificate of appreciation from one of my blog readers. I’m including this in my performance review. Oh wait, I don’t get performance reviews, I’m the president. Now that I have my certificate in getting the…
So, I did it. I finally got the SPSS Python Integration modules to work on the Mac. There should be angels singing and certificates of achievement handed to me personally by at least four of the twelve apostles. At the very least, I should get a prize. Almost six months ago, I wrote a post…
I hate Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the entire Twilight Series. This came about over the course of a week when my daughter had strep throat and was watching approximately 4,789,362 episodes of vampire shows in the living room, which is just down the hall from my office. Thus, when Brenda Osuna from USC asked…
Kirk Anderson recently mentioned a new course on the American Statistical Association Statistical Education group, Statistics in the Media “The focus will be on how statistics are reported in the media. Students will be asked to read news stories and critically evaluate the conclusions made, recognizing when assertions are and are not supported by evidence….
Several interesting random thoughts from JSM: From a session by Freeda Cooner entitled, “Bayesian statistics are powerful, not magical” ways in which Bayes results could be slanted (one hopes unwittingly) were discussed. One point worth repeating is that the validity assumes accurate priors. Kind of obvious, no? Yet, the question is, where did you get…