Things You Find in the Newspaper

Do you still have the newspaper delivered to your house? I do. It is part of our morning routine. It dominates our weekend mornings. We sit together at the kitchen table with our coffee and our favorite section of the paper. I get the home an…

Keeping Up with ZIP Codes Changes

Today was site maintenance day for me. There were several pages that I needed to update. I have to be careful when I start working on these pages because I see a shiny thread and I follow it. Before I know it, it’s lunch time and I’ve been read…

SAS now goes with Bayesian methods

New versions of SAS (9.2) procedures GENMOD, LIFEREG, and PHREG enable users to use Bayesian approach for estimating model parameters. The computations are done with McMC methods. There is also a new experimental procedure MCMC. See more here. I wonder…

Numbers and Magic Tricks

I was in a conference room waiting for a meeting to start the other day. Several people in the room were talking about an interesting numbers trick that Clarke Thacher had posted to his internal blog. All agreed that others might be intrigued by…