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…
How to make SPSS 18 do graphics whether it wants to or not … SPSS isn’t the statistical package I use most often – a few times a month when clients request it. I have SPSS 18 on a Mac and it works fine pretty much, until recently when someone felt the need for a…
After reading that Curt Monash writes FIVE blogs on software and marketing, I felt as if I had no excuse for not keeping up lately. However, for my excuse, you can click the link below: For my cinchcast explanation of why I have not been blogging. Also, anyone with suggested uses for a yoke, let…
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…
I was very busy this weekend working on the semi-annual site update (I am SO getting last place in the Search Engine Optimization contest) and starting on my book – Beyond SAS Basics: Tips, Statistics and a Naked Mole Rat and on TOP of all of that, I had to take the world’s most spoiled…
“Can you explain multicollinearity statistics?” she asked. Why, yes, yes I can. First of all, as noted in the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, “Multicollinearity is not a life-threatening condition except when a depressed graduate student employs multiple, redundant measures.” What is multicollinearity, then, and how do you know if you have it? Multicollinearity is a…