In reply to Dr. Mark Mayzner.

Dear Dr. Mayzner,
It is an honor to have you comment on my blog. Your suggestions are excellent, but I doubt that I will address them. The primary purpose of my blog is to show how to use SAS software to accomplish interesting tasks in statistical programming, data analysis, and data visualization. I avoid analyzing any topic too deeply because I want my posts to be accessible to non-experts. (And on this topic, I am a non-expert myself!)

For this series, I intend to explore repeated-letter bigrams and then discuss how to use frequency analysis of those three items (single letters, bigrams, and repeated letters) to solve simple recreational puzzles that appear in the daily newspaper. I do not intend to treat trigrams or higher combinations of letters at this time.

Best wishes,
Rick Wicklin