Back in August I mentioned that one of my clients was running a predictive modelling competition with a $10,000 prize fund. The competition closes on Friday September 30th, just a couple of weeks away, so if you intend to enter but haven’t done so yet,…
Info Map: I want an Average not a Sum!
In Information Map Studio, you can easily set the default measure for a data item in the Properties area.
(1) Use the Default aggregate function drop-down to select the default. When you set this item to AVERAGE, the data item defaults to Average t…
Scheduling Jobs
We’ve been on overload the last week with urgent requests as the big yearly meeting looms in the not so distant future. Unfortunately, this means that every single employee is frantically pulling data and hammering the db2 server with requests. I’ve been working around the noticeable slowness by either shortening my date ranges but I […]
What’s our sign?
Rick Wicklin and I are engaged in an arms race of birthday-related blog posts. To recap: Rick analyzed national data about births in the USA and what time of year they are most likely to occur. I responded by analyzing the birthdays of my Facebook friends. Rick responded by analyzing […]
Example 9.5: New stuff in SAS 9.3– proc FMM
Finite mixture models (FMMs) can be used in settings where some unmeasured classification separates the observed data into groups with different exposure/outcome relationships. One familiar example of this is a zero-inflated model, where some observat…
Example 9.5: New stuff in SAS 9.3– proc FMM
Finite mixture models (FMMs) can be used in settings where some unmeasured classification separates the observed data into groups with different exposure/outcome relationships. One familiar example of this is a zero-inflated model, where some observat…