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Javascript, canvas and animation not running in all browsers

I’m the world’s biggest hypocrite when it comes to documentation. In every staff meeting, I emphasize documenting whatever code you have written that week, but I always put off doing it myself.  My excuse is always that it isn’t final and when I get the complete project done I will put it in the wiki….

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How to write a statistical analysis paper: Step Three

So far, we have looked at How to get the sample demographics and descriptive statistics for your dependent and independent variable. Computing descriptive statistics by category  Now it’s time to dive into step 3, computing inferential statistics. The code is quite simple. We need a LIBNAME statement. It will look something like this. The exact…

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How do I write a statistical analysis paper: Step two

In the last post, I posed the following null hypothesis as an example: There is no difference in obesity among Caucasians, African-Americans and Latinos. You can see the results from the statistical analyses here. Since my question only pertains to those three groups, let’s begin by creating a data set with just those subjects. libname…

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How Do I Write a Statistical Analysis Paper? Advice to Students

I get asked this question fairly often so I thought I would do a few posts on it. The most common problem is that a student who is new to statistics has no idea where to even start. These examples use SAS but you could use any package you like. My recommendation to students beginning…