I am not a statistician, but I love statistics. Statistics are facts, and when used for good, they are an important ingredient in sound decision making about almost any issue, whether it’s about government policy or your personal behavior.
The u…
I <3 STATISTICS
Like John Sall, I’m wearing my “I <3 STATISTICS” pin today… and I’m not even a statistician. When I tell new acquaintances that I work at SAS, I usually get one of these responses: “Oh that’s nice. I’ve never heard of them.” “Oh that’s nice…
Example 8.10: Combination dotplot/boxplot (teaching graphic in honor of World Statistics Day)
In honor of World Statistics Day and the read paper that my co-authors Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan, and I are presenting at the Royal Statistical Society today, we present the R code to generate a combination dotplot/boxplot that is useful…
UN World Statistics Day
We’re told that SAS no longer stands for Statistical Analysis System, but it’s still used for an awful lot of statistical analysis. So, it’s worth noting that tomorrow (Wednesday October 20th) has been named World Statistics Day (WSD) by…
NOTE: What is PROC SORTT?
My friend and ex-colleague CB drew my attention to an intriguing thread on SAS-L recently. It asked “What is PROC SORTT” and drew a response from Paul Kent
At times we’ve issued “the same proc with a new name” as a way of allowing us to get feedb…
NOTE: More on sorting and SQL
Further to my recent post on telling SAS that your data is pre-sorted, it’s worth mentioning the SORTVALIDATE system option. This yes/no option tells SAS whether the SORT procedure should verify if a data set is sorted according to the variab…