As always, I learned a lot at SAS Global Forum this year. It is one of those conferences where there are always two or three sessions going on at once that I would like to attend. I stayed for a bit AFTER the conference because I knew that I would not want to waste any…
True confessions: I just don’t get the data hackathon I am old. If I was not aware of this by looking at my U.S. birth certificate (which, like President Obama, I do have), I have America’s most spoiled thirteen-year-old to tell me, “You’re old.” (sometimes followed by – “and stupid” if I have just told…
Anyone who tells you they know all of SAS is like that creepy guy at the fraternity party who swears that his father is the Duke of Canada, that is, they have a perception of themselves that is not in screaming distance of contact with reality. Even though I have been using SAS for decades,…
I’ve never understood masochists. Back in the days when I was competing I would regularly get calls from creepy men who were willing to pay me big bucks to beat them up. As one of my lovely daughters said of the sumo wrestler who sent her a picture of himself posing in his diaper-thingie and…
One of my favorite movie lines ever comes from The Princess Bride, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Sometimes I want to say that to people who want me to give an explanation for every result that is “significant”. Perhaps you would like to test…
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…
The first cool thing you should know about Dr. Patricia Berglund is that she and several others put their slides and more up at the SAS Global Forum take-out section. That is NOT, contrary to what you might believe, a place where you can pick up some really good Chinese food to eat while listening…
From time to time I get asked, “Can you recommend a book like Structural Equation Modeling for Dummies?” My unspoken thought is always, “You’re f***ing kidding me, right?” SEM isn’t the sort of thing done by dummies. Well, ask no more if you want straightforward, basic treatment of CALIS – the SAS procedure for structural…
Despite the title, this is not the new show in Las Vegas. John Sall is Mr. JMP . In fact, it is said behind his back that JMP actually stands for John’s Macintosh Project, this being the product SAS started about the time that they made the move away from running SAS on Mac OS…
In three minutes before the next statistics session, here’s some more on the opening session last night. SAS Chief Marketing Officer Jim Davis made the comment that for every SAS product they are asking the question “Is there a mobile application for this and if so what does it look like?” He also showed some…