What must everyone know and why must everyone know that? This was one of the two central questions in Dr. J.T. Dillon’s course on Curriculum and Instruction, which I thought was going to be a colossal waste of time. After all, I was going to be a statistician, why would I need a course on…
I was very happy to get an acceptance letter from WUSS telling me that my class proposal for the 2011 conference was accepted. I’m usually happy to get acceptance letters in general but this was particularly nice since I have gotten the first four chapters of my naked mole rat book done and the next…
I read an interesting blog post by Jason Cohen of Smart Bear, “Do I dare call bullshit” and my comment was so long and my week is so filled, I thought I would just go ahead and repeat the comment here as my blog for today. I certainly post things that piss people off from…
I admit that I am hardly a typical user for statistical software, given that I had to go online to download a file with less than 7,000 records and less than 500 variables. STILL, I have to say that PSPP was a disappointment in a great many ways. This is NOT to say that it…
When last seen, our heroes were attempting to write a book with the title Beyond SAS Basics: Tips, Statistics and a Naked Mole Rat The first chapter was entitled After the Data Step. The first half of it was posted here earlier which you would know if you were following this blog in the probably…
Any person who claims to know all of SAS is either clinically insane or a liar. However, that is not you. YOU are reading this book. Based on this one fact, I can conclude a couple of things about you. First, you know the basics of SAS. You can code a DATA step. You have…
I wanted to learn how to use smashwords, for reasons completely unrelated to this blog, SAS or statistics, but I thought it would go much faster if I had an actual project to work on. I considered writing a serious book for researchers on SAS Enterprise Guide, but then I decided that I did not…
Now, I’m not as extreme as the person who created a SAS Tetris game, (Richard DeVenezia, in case you were wondering) but I still try to do just about everything in SAS, if only to prove that I can do it. Why would someone who has been using SAS for 28 years decide to pick…
The new structural equation modeling for JMP is pretty cool. It’s unfortunate that it requires both JMP and SAS/STAT to run it, the cost of the two combined being so expensive that you pretty much have to work for a huge organization that can afford a site license for both or sell a kidney to…
Since the whole presentation Patricia Berglund gave on survival analysis is available at the SAS Global Forum takeout section (which I explained yesterday, you should have been paying attention), I just wanted to add a few highlights here. 1. Using PROC LIFETEST with a STRATA statements is a very dandy way to show survival curves…