I’m doing a workshop at the San Diego SAS users group meeting on Wednesday and had suggested opening the session with a clip of my daughter’s last amateur fight. Someone politely commented, “Uh, I guess that would be okay, if it was, uh, relevant.” Fair question, how can martial arts be related to statistics or…
I will be missing my lovely daughter Ronda’s fight in Calgary next month because I will be attending the National Association of Hispanic Journalists conference in Orlando, Florida, where sports journalist and equally lovely daughter Maria Burns Ortiz will be. It is completely false that this proves Maria is the favorite child. In addition to…
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…
I had a lot of questions about structural equation modeling with JMP and when I was in Las Vegas at SAS Global Forum a while back, I was able finally to hook up with* speak to Wayne Watson and get almost all of my questions answered. This is Wayne. You should look for him because…
My father was born in New York City to two non-citizens who were in the U.S. for a few years, left and never returned. In his twenties, he returned to the U.S. and joined the military, I am pretty sure because it was the one thing he could think of that would most piss off…
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…