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Acquisitions Editor, SAS Press, SAS Publishing

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SAS books, authors, and SESUG 2012

We wrapped up the annual SESUG conference this week. This year was special, in that the conference was held locally near SAS world headquarters in Cary, NC. In fact, the opening session on Sunday was right here in our on-campus conference center. Conferees were able to take campus tours and

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Your guide to overdispersion in SAS

Let’s assume you own a modeling agency. You’ve just discovered a beautiful new model, who seems to have everything. She’ll be a star, the toast of the fashion show, modeling all the latest gowns and swimsuits. And you will be a star too, because you discovered her. Yet, when the

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A Traditionalist's Take on the Kindle

Okay, so I bought a Kindle. Now, officially, I don’t like such electronic gizmos. My oft-stated position has long been that the traditional hard-copy book is good enough for me. For one thing, the batteries don’t go dead. Be that as it may, when Amazon lowered the price a couple

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'Tis the season

This is surely an exciting season, not just because Santa’s on his way and there’s a new year around the corner, but also because an exciting new book from SAS Press has just been published. Veteran SAS Press author Sandra Schlotzhauer has followed up her Elementary Statistics Using JMP and

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Our over-populated social mediaverse

Hmmm. Let’s see. Facebook. Check. Twitter. Check. LinkedIn. Check. That’s about it for me, social media Website-wise. Guess I got that covered. What? You say there’s more? Lots more? Boy, is there ever. Wikipedia lists 157 active social networking sites. My favorite in that bunch, which I’ve not been quite

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Connecting with fans

We talk a lot here about how we’re using social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook to publicize our books. I was a late comer to these applications and, like a lot of people of my generation, came to them with a high degree of skepticism. I won’t say