In a previous post, I asked what you would do if one person’s score changed your results? Would you throw them out? Leave them in? Does it depend on whether they support your hypothesis or not? A few people suggested collecting more data and I completely agree with their very valid points that if one…
This is a hypothetical question, but it could easily happen. Let me give you a real example. Using a mobile phone game, we administered a standard depression screening measure (CESD-C) to 18 children living on or near an American Indian reservation. All children had a family member who was an alcoholic or addicted to drugs. …
Let me say right off the bat that the number of contracts I’ve had where people wanted me to tell them what to do I can count on one hand – and I’ve been in business 30 years. Generally, whether it is an executive in an organization where I’m an employee or a client for…
Almost always when I get asked to teach anything my answer is: No. I don’t even think about it . Just, no. I’m too busy. Usually, I’ll teach one graduate class a year and that’s it. However, recently I had the opportunity to teach an introduction to statistics course and design the whole course from…
Today, I finished up a bonus Easter egg for the game, Aztech: Meet the Maya that you are taken to play when you click to see what Jose is thinking. You can see a rough version of it here. This plays better on a desktop / laptop because iPad blocks the autoplay for sound, but…
So you want to be a successful software developer / consultant ? If you are in any kind of quantitative field you have a VAST range of options, from working at some of the largest companies in the world in marketing research to performing efficacy studies for non-profits whose staff members can be counted on…
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…
I read a comment on line saying SAS probably would not disappear as an option for statistical analysis because “it’s good when you need to do a lot of data manipulation”. I wonder what world those people live in that data comes all cleanly packaged and whether they have unicorns there. Back on Planet Earth,…
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…
Once every year, I teach an actual course, not a workshop or professional development, but a class with 20 – 40 students. One where I need to write a syllabus, have lectures, papers to grade, homework and exams. Now, I’m not comparing teaching masters or doctoral students 3- 6 hours a week to my friends…