Here is the scenario … 1. The researcher had a return rate more than triple the average return rate for emailed surveys in general. This return rate was despite apparently not having any of the features related to higher return rates – incentives for completion, an advance postcard or email explaining the survey and incentives,…
If that sounds like total marketing b.s. to you, I can’t blame you — download this app and supermodels will throw themselves at you with thousand dollar bills in their teeth. Well, no super models are provided but the SAS Web Editor really *will* write your code for you in the latest version soon to…
Trying this live blogging from SAS Global Forum again. The title kind of says it PROC QUANTLIFE new procedure in SAS 9.3 Why DO we need a new procedure for survival analysis? ====== Survival analysis used to analyze time-to-event data already had procs lifetes, lifereg & phreg ======== Lifereg is fine if you have IID…
Here is my first attempt at live blogging on my new iPad and my first effort with the WordPress app. Peter Eberhardt doing a Hands-On workshop at SAS Global Forum. It’s standing room only well it would be standing room only if they let you stand. It’s actually full & they are going to turn…
Okay, well, I lied (sort of). I have no idea what will happen at the SAS Academic Reception tomorrow except that it will be from 2-4 pm and I will be there. Also, there is a panel where people (including me) will be answering questions from the audience about how they use SAS in teaching….
I’m always a bit bemused when people refer to me as a “SAS expert”. I don’t think of myself as an expert at anything except, perhaps, bricolage, a word I am indebted to sascommunity.org for even being aware of its existence. Merriam-Webster defines it as: : construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of…
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Albert Bandura, arguably the greatest living psychologist. To almost anyone who ever took an undergraduate psychology course, he is best remembered for his Bobo doll study, where he found that young children who observed aggressive behavior being reinforced (on a doll), were more…
While I agree with much of what entrepreneur/ professor/ author Vivek Wadhwa writes, I think his latest article in the Wall Street Journal is a little off target. He says, Why would any company pay a computer programmer with out-of-date skills a salary of say $150,000, when it can hire a fresh graduate — who…
It has been pointed out to me that when other people take two days off in a row, it is called “The Weekend”. However, I don’t really have any hobbies except for judo, which I teach a couple of times a week. I like hiking in the mountains, but that only takes a couple of…
I haven’t been using Enterprise Guide much lately but tonight I could not get the SAS Web Editor to work and I had some graphs I needed to get done. It was convenient to do this with SAS Enterprise Guide because I wanted to do bar charts of the mean of one variable broken down…