In the spirit of the new year – the International Year of Statistics – I thought I’d share some different ways to use statistics. Can statistics help you in your everyday life? Certainly! And here’s an example to prove it… Let’s say you ha…
Tag: Statistics
Blog Statistics: 2012
(This blog’s page view data from Google Analytics; 43 posts in total in 2012) Top 10 countries/territories and cities (traffic) Most of my readers come from US and I’m glad my Chinese fellows still fork me since I moved to US this year (today is my one year anniversary in US). To my surprising there […]
Weekend Clips: Data Scientist Episode II
1. What is A Data Scientist Anyway?
2. You Just Can’t Be Replaced by Yourselves!
3. We are all Data Scientists!
My SAS Books: Shopping List 2012
Last year I threw away all my SAS books (to friends and colleagues in Beijing) before moving to US. You might agree that it’s not economically bound to transport such heavy books intercontinentally! Now I just start to build my SAS library one by one. I will most probably not buy more SAS books as […]
Weekend Clip: Data Scientist
Two tweets:
One blog post:
Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is too many posers
One job advertisement:
SAS Data Scientist ?(!)
A joke:
The biggest joke about data scientist is that the Google query “data scientis…
Incorporate SAS/IML to Base SAS?
Since SAS 9.3, ODS Graphics was moved into Base SAS, which means the SAS/Graph license is not needed anymore to access ODS Graphics facilities. It’s definitely nice, but from customers’ point of view, it is not critical necessary: since the “minimum set of SAS system” in most SAS sessions includes the Base SAS, SAS/Stat and […]
Statistical Notes (5): Confidence Intervals for Difference Between Independent Binomial Proportions Using SAS
A guy notices a bunch of targets scattered over a barn wall, and in the center of each, in the "bulls-eye," is a bullet hole. "Wow," he says to the farmer, "that’s pretty good shooting. How’d you do it?" "Oh," says the farmer, "it was easy. I painted the targets after I shot the holes." […]
Where is SAS Output Anyway?
It is said in An Introduction to R, one of R official documents (Current Version: 2.15.1): There is an important difference in philosophy between S (and hence R) and the other main statistical systems. In S a statistical analysis is normally done as a series of steps, with intermediate results being stored in objects. Thus […]