Little known fact (because, seriously, how would you know) , I write a lot of code while sitting on a plane and I can’t always connect to the Internet. NOT ALL QUOTATION MARKS ARE CREATED EQUAL Sometimes, when I copy and paste my code into SAS Studio, it doesn’t work. if compress(q23) = “3/4” then…
A while back, I wrote a post on getting your Excel data into SAS Studio the quick and easy way. However, I hear you saying, What about ME? What about MY needs? What if I don’t want my data written to the working directory? What if my file has the names at the top and…
Where is the Multivariate Analysis of Variance ? You promised there would be MANOVA ! Now we’re in the third post! First there was recoding of variables. Then, there was creating scales. Now, we’re looking at reliability. Patience is a virtue. Before we get to doing a MANOVA we want to be sure that our…
Last time, we saw how to recode variables to score answers correct or incorrect, on a rating scale and weighted by importance. Today, we’re going to look at creating some scales from those variables because for reasons I’m sure I have written about at some point in the past, single items are usually not very…
Other people want to go see the new Wonder Woman movie. I’ve been wanting to talk about MANOVA, but first, we need some decent dependent and independent measures. I have the India Human Development Survey data on over 39,000 women and my hypothesis is that education is related to women’s rights’ issues, especially autonomy, health…
I’m teaching a course on multivariate statistics and for some of the students it’s been a minute since their last inferential statistics course. So, I have been doing a few videos here and there to refresh, for example, what is a repeated measures ANOVA and why you might want to do it. Sometimes I…
Since I had done a few youtube videos on using SAS Studio, I thought I would add them to my blog. This one uses the characterize data task to take a quick look at the data, but I suppose you could have guessed that from the title. Support my day job AND get smarter….
It’s been almost two weeks of reviewing textbooks, revising my syllabus and I have to go back to it in a couple of hours to edit my last few powerpoints before class starts. Yes, when I was a brand-new baby professor I was sometimes rushing to write a lecture before class, but now that I…
Hopefully, you have read my Beginner’s Guide to Propensity Score matching or through some other means become aware of what the hell propensity score matching is. Okay, fine, how do you get those propensity scores? Think about this carefully for a moment, if you are using quintiles, you are matching people by which group they…
I have to choose between either SAS or SPSS for a new course in multivariate statistics. You can take it up with the university if you like, but these are my only two options, in part because the course is starting soon. I need to decide in a few days which way to go. Here…