Predictive modelling returns to the UK

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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Partitioning a quadratic in JMP

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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Variable clustering in JMP

When presented with a large number of variables to predict an outcome, you may want to reduce the number of variables in some way to make the prediction problem easier to tackle. One possible dimension reduction technique is the well-known method of principal components analysis (PCA). The variables resulting from [...]

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Visualizing the variability of a curve using bootstrapping

This is part 4 of a series of blog posts on the new bootstrap feature in JMP Pro, Version 10, that began with an introduction to one-click bootstrapping. In previous posts in this series, we have looked at bootstrapping functions of the output and multiple tables simultaneously. In this post, [...]

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Bootstrap multiple tables simultaneously with JMP Pro

This is part 3 of a series of blog posts on the bootstrap feature in JMP Pro, Version 10. Previously, we exploited the fact that Distribution will give Bootstrap confidence limits anytime that there is a BootID• column present in the data table. Part 1 introduced one-click bootstrapping in JMP [...]

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Using the bootstrap for functions of statistics

This is part 2 of a series of blog posts on the new bootstrap feature in JMP Pro, Version 10. The first part introduced one-click bootstrapping. Sometimes, your quantity of interest might not be reported directly in a JMP report window. Instead it might be calculated as a function of [...]

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Introducing the one-click bootstrap in JMP Pro

One of the great new features in JMP Pro, Version 10, is the one-click bootstrap. Most tables of results in analytical platforms have a new item in their context (right-click) menus, called Bootstrap. Selecting this item will bring up a small dialog with some options. Once you click OK, JMP will perform a [...]

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Report from UK: Building better statistical models, faster and easier

Almost 40 leading analysts from financial services, marketing, R&D and the public sector gathered together in SAS’ Manchester, UK, office to find out how you can build better statistical models, faster and easier. Sam Gardner, the global technical lead for JMP Pro, kicked off the seminar on 25 Sept. with [...]

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The UK is jumpin’ for JMP!

The last week of September is going to be manic for JMP in the UK because we’ve got two fantastic events going on. I am delighted to say that the UK JMP User Forum on 27 September will be hosting SAS co-founder and JMP inventor, John Sall. His keynote speech [...]

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How JMP Pro delivers insights

Several of the clients of Predictum, our analytical solutions company, have asked us to help them to evaluate the capabilities of JMP Pro with their data and analytical challenges, and we’ve done so with excellent results. We’ve seen that the advanced modelling capabilities in JMP Pro give insights over and above [...]

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