Let the buyer beware – that phrase certainly applies to open data, as does the less historical but equally true statement that students always want to work with real data until they get some. Lately, I have had students working with two different data sets that have led me to the inevitable conclusion that self-report…
It’s about time I got some recognition ! You can claim your own Love Stats award here. Careful, of undeserved awards, though. The last person who falsely claimed a Love Stats award had multicollinearity in his measures, a high VIF and died of complications of homoscedasticity. You have been warned.
I am tired of hearing that men in technical fields cannot meet women. Some stupid company even went so far as to say that they had hired hot women to work at their company so now they were going to have no problem attracting good programmers and engineers. This is stupid on so many levels….
Giving a whole new meaning to “computing in the cloud”, I finished up my paper “A gentle introduction to survival analysis” for the Nevada SAS Users Group from 30,000 feet up using on-board wi-fi and SAS On-demand. I was shocked to find that the performance was much better in-flight. Presumably, if you charge people $12.95…
I might as well give you my opinion of these two kinds of sin as long as, in a way, against each other we are pitting them, And that is, don’t bother your head about the sins of commission because however sinful, they must at least be fun or else you wouldn’t be committing them….
Completely unrelated to statistics, software or, anything really, my darling daughter number three is ranked in the top ten in the world in mixed martial arts. She has been nominated for female fighter of the year, which is decided in a scientific, objective manner by how many votes the nominees get on the Internet. She…
Jon Peltier and I were going back and forth on twitter about why it is that people will post answers on a forum or mailing list that are completely incorrect. As Peter Flom says, “They are often in error but never in doubt.” Jon suggested there are three types; those who don’t know and admit…
I read Allen Englehardt’s post this morning, on R vs SAS/SPSS in corporations and it motivated me to set aside my infinite to-do list and write about something I’ve been thinking for a long time. Since Allen writes on R-bloggers, it will surprise no one that his conclusion was that R is preferable to SAS…
Two things, first of all. Those folks in Colorado are unbelievable studs to come out in inches of snow and more falling to a full house at the Denver & northern Colorado / Wyoming SAS users group meeting. I’ll bet the people in North Dakota are…
Let me just say off the bat that open data is awesome and there should be more of it available. This semester, I have been using SAS On-Demand in my statistics class and creating the data sets to meet students’ interests. Despite some people’s aspersions that I read on Twitter that some statisticians know no…