Gerhard Svolba is a colleague at SAS who is not only an experienced analyst and a caring father, but also an author for SAS Press and an enthusiastic sailor. He has done valuable research about detecting data quality problems and their consequences for data analysis. As a statistician, I’m well
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During the The Scale-Up of Chemical Processes conference in Brussels earlier this year, the organizers and I decided to do an experiment using JMP. Of course, the experiment had to involve beer tasting! We had 24 participants for the experiment. We used eight Belgian beer brands for testing and planned
Statistics wouldn’t be what it is today without Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, a German scientist. He was born April 30, 1777, in Braunschweig and died Feb. 21, 1855, in Göttingen. Born as the only son of a poor worker’s family with illiterate parents, he was a child prodigy. Luckily, teachers,
In preparation for the federal elections in Germany, the Federal Returning Officer has an interesting and important task: He needs to redraw the constituencies such that the number of constituencies in the individual Länder (states) corresponds as closely as possible to their share of the population. The population of a
Last summer, we embarked on a family trip to visit some of the great landmarks of the western United States. While planning the trip, I used JMP to keep track of all the places we wanted to see and the travel distances in between. I entered the times that we
Recently, a number of customers have asked me how to start with design of experiments if they have technical knowledge about the product to build, or the process steps to follow, but no prior statistical information. They want the next experiment to be planned thoroughly and that data collected in
JMP offers a lot of sophisticated statistical analyses that are easy to use because of its well-designed user interfaces. Nonlinear estimation is not as easy to use because the incredible flexibility of that platform may challenge even a statistically savvy person. However, with JMP Scripting Language (JSL), it is easy