New capabilities in JMP 8 and use of the software in classroom and business environments were focal topics at the inaugural meeting of the Atlanta JMP Users Group. More than 30 people attended the June 17 gathering at the SAS Atlanta Training Center. The newly formed group is led by
I didn't get any guesses on the odds of flipping various items from my Flipping Odds post. Instead, the commenters went directly to the question of interest, which is how does the chance for one flip affect the chance for two flips being the same? That turns out to be
Statisticians like to talk about flipping coins, especially fair coins, which have an equal chance of being heads or tails. But what about flipping other things? In particular, as an Ultimate Frisbee player, I want to know what the odds are for a flying disc. Maybe knowing the odds will
Statistical intervals can be confusing, even in the minds of those who use them often. José Ramirez, from W.L. Gore & Associates of GORE-TEX® fabric fame, offers a white paper that uses an easy-to-understand manufacturing example to describe the differences between confidence, prediction and tolerance (enclosure) intervals. He provides formulas
We are hard at work getting ready for “Discovery 2008: The data exploration conference.” For this year’s conference (formerly the JMP User’s Conference), we have assembled an exciting list of speakers from diverse backgrounds in industry, academia, and private consulting. For details about the conference, including speaker abstracts and bios,
It is hard to believe that the JMP User Conference is over for another year. So much happened in just one week! I left with lots of new ideas. Some of these ideas occurred to me in the lunch time roundtable discussions. I was fortunate to moderate one about design
“Wild” may not be the way most JMP User Conference attendees described their time on the SAS Campus last week. I’m guessing “educational,” “eye-opening” and even “fun” would be better descriptors for most of the folks who attended the conference and/or the classes around it. But my week had a
Some conference attendees have asked how we select training courses for the conference. The goal behind the conference training is to expose attendees to courses that are different from the typical JMP training courses available throughout the year. This year, the Advanced Scripting Panel and Discussion and Analysis of Dose-Response
I attended the keynote address that started the JMP User Conference this year. John Sall showed us many of the new features, with compelling examples. Some of these additions and enhancements are a result of user comments and requests. Others are the result of the insight of JMP R&D to
There's a lot of talk about the strategic (and financial) importance of retaining and developing design and knowledge skills in the US. Management at Timken goes one step better - they put talk into action. I recently learned how they used JMP to figure out how to eliminate a defect