Celebrating George Box and Box-Behnken designs

Bradley Jones
Bradley Jones|May 13, 2013

As part of the International Year of Statistics, the JMP Blog is honoring influential statisticians each month. Professor George E.P. Box is the honoree for May. Last week, I wrote about on the first of his two-part paper with J. Stuart Hunter on the family of regular two-level fractional factorial [...]

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Predictive modelling returns to the UK

Bernard McKeown
Bernard McKeown|April 22, 2013

We have had such a favourable response to our seminar on Building Better Models that we held our third one on 10 April, with nearly 100 people attending. It’s become a global success, having been delivered 20 times throughout the world. The seminar is based on George Box’s concept that [...]

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Using JMP to evaluate MCMC diagnostics

Richard Zink
Richard Zink|April 17, 2013

It’s no secret that JMP excels in the visual exploration of data. There’s a healthy dose of statistics, too. But when asked about Bayesian methods, JMP is probably not the first software package that comes to mind. JMP 10 does contain Bayesian D-optimal and I-optimal designs in our design of experiments (DOE) features, [...]

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New shapes in JMP: Microtitre plates

Mark Bailey
Mark Bailey|March 27, 2013

The last couple of versions of JMP have extended data visualization in so many ways and made it easier to create these graphics, too. One recent addition to Graph Builder is shapes. JMP is installed with a set of shape files for the geographic boundaries of world countries, states and [...]

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Get discount on JMP training

Brooke Fortson
Brooke Fortson|March 26, 2013

JMP customers can now receive a 25% discount when pre-purchasing training in bulk. A minimum purchase of $6,000 will buy 8,000 SAS Training Points. When you are ready to purchase training, just remember that 1 point = $1 worth of JMP training (some exclusions apply). This is a great opportunity [...]

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Partitioning a quadratic in JMP

Sam Gardner
Sam Gardner|March 25, 2013

At a recent Building Better Models seminar, someone asked me, “If you have a factor that has a curved relationship with a response, can a decision tree model be used to model that relationship?” To show that this is indeed possible, I created a simple simulated data set with 200 [...]

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2 great minds in 1 quality webcast

Leo Wright
Leo Wright|March 12, 2013

They say great minds think alike. We’ve also heard that two heads are better than one. Well, in the case of husband and wife Brenda and José Ramírez, two great minds have combined to develop and teach highly successful, modern quality practices. Deploying traditional techniques such as those developed by [...]

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PCA and illustrative variables add-in for JMP

Florence Kussener
Florence Kussener|March 11, 2013

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a traditional method in data analysis and, more specifically, in multivariate analysis. PCA was developed by Karl Pearson in 1901. The goal of PCA is to reduce the dimensionality in a set of correlated variables into a smaller set of uncorrelated variables that explain the majority [...]

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1 location, 2 courses, 3 days of JMP training

Brooke Fortson
Brooke Fortson|March 7, 2013

Here’s a great training opportunity for new JMP users in the Chicago area: We have scheduled our top two courses back-to-back March 20-22 at our Chicago training center. The three-day training will begin with JMP Software: Data Exploration, our introduction course that teaches students how to manage, analyze and explore [...]

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The weekly status call...Is it really that time again?

Amelia Vogler
Amelia Vogler|February 18, 2013

Whether it is 10:00 a.m. on Monday morning or 5:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon, that weekly meeting just seems to come pretty quickly doesn’t it? I don’t know if it is true for you, but when I begin reporting on something weekly or at any short frequency, I start thinking [...]

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