{"id":1421,"date":"2011-05-31T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2011-05-31T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T00:38:52","slug":"beyond-sas-basics-tips-statistics-and-a-naked-mole-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/beyond-sas-basics-tips-statistics-and-a-naked-mole-rat\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond SAS Basics: Tips, Statistics and a Naked Mole Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I wanted to learn how to use smashwords<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

I considered writing a serious book for researchers on SAS Enterprise Guide, but then I decided that I did not want to do it badly enough to put in the amount of work required.\u00a0 If you are doing something pointy- and-clicky like SAS Enterprise Guide, you need screenshots, and at a lot higher resolution than for the web.<\/p>\n

Also, my experience with publishers and editors has revealed that they have actual standards and they ask questions like,<\/p>\n

“Why do you have a picture of two naked mole rats on page 42?”<\/em><\/p>\n

and are seldom satisfied with extremely logical answers like,<\/p>\n

“I had a picture of one naked mole rat, but he looked lonely. Or she looked lonely. I’m not really clear on the gender differences.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So, enter Plan B …. I got to thinking (yes, it does happen), that I have written several things on moving from beyond basics with SAS and I already have the screen shots and the output. Furthermore, I think the resolution does not need to be any higher than what I already have. So, my plan is to edit and put together several papers I have written into an approximately 200 page book. It is theoretically possible that people might buy it, but even if they don’t, it is highly probable (p > .79 ) that I will learn how to use smashwords<\/a> . My next step after that is learning how to publish for Kindle on the Amazon site.<\/p>\n

The title of the book is “Beyond SAS Basics: Tips, Statistics and a Naked Mole Rat”<\/p>\n

Here is my table of contents<\/p>\n

Part I – After the DATA Step<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beyond the Basics: Statements, formats and functions<\/p>\n

Beyond the Basics: New procedures and some new twists on old procedures<\/p>\n

Beyond the Basics: Making your output look like it was done by a grown-up<\/p>\n

Part 2 \u2013 Statistics OR Math is not hard, well, it\u2019s easier than unemployment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Logistic Regression \u2013 for when your data really do fit in neat little boxes<\/p>\n

Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance \u2013 control group, experimental group, yada yada yada<\/p>\n

Part 3 – Data Quality : Garbage in- garbage out & no one wants to pay you for garbage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Checking if your data blow with SAS Enterprise Guide<\/p>\n

1, 2, 3 , 4 Data quality procedures<\/p>\n

Part 4 \u2013 A little bit of macro<\/strong><\/p>\n

An introduction to macros with the STRT macro that I just made up<\/p>\n

Super-duper useful data quality macro<\/p>\n

Part 5 \u2013 Where do you go from here<\/strong><\/p>\n

A rambling map of SAS resources<\/p>\n

A naked mole rat<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}