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Now that the emotional storm following the American Statistical Association's statement on p-values is slowing down (is it? was there ev...

The parallel coordinate plot is useful for visualizing multivariate data in a dis-aggregated way, where we have multiple numerical measurem...

In business schools it is common to teach statistics courses using Microsoft Excel, due to its wide accessibility and the familiarity of bus...

I just learned of the new Prediction API by Google -- in brief, you upload a training set with up to 1 million records and let Google's...

I am following up on two earlier posts regarding using SAS On Demand for Academics. The version of EM has been upgraded to 6.1, which means ...

The drag-and-drop (D&D) concept in data mining tools is very neat. You "drag" icons (aka "nodes") that do different...

I've recently had interesting discussions with colleagues in Information Systems regarding testing directional hypotheses. Following the...

Following up on my previous posting about using SAS Enterprise Minder via the On Demand platform: From continued communication with experts ...

I am in the process of trying out SAS Enterprise Miner via the (relatively new) SAS On Demand for Academics . In our MBA data mining course...

Scatterplots are extremely popular and useful graphical displays for examining the relationship between two numeric variables. They get even...

The European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics ( ENBIS ) has released the 2009 ENBIS Challenge . The challenge this time is to...

Histograms are very useful charts for displaying the distribution of a numerical measurement. The idea is to bucket the numerical measuremen...

Recently I was trying to open a data file that was created in the statistical software SPSS. SPSS is widely used in the social sciences (a c...