The DO Loop
Statistical programming in SAS with an emphasis on SAS/IML programs
A previous article discusses regression splines and how to use the EFFECT statement in SAS regression procedures to specify the location of knots for a regressor variable, X. Knots are breakpoints that partition the range of X into subintervals. The splines are defined on a set of adjacent subintervals. The
Splines are useful tools for fitting regression models to data. A spline replaces a single variable (call it X) with several other variables, which are a spline basis for X. When using a spline basis, the shape and location of the basis functions depend on the placement of knots. Knots
Did you know that, for skewed distributions, the sample median is a biased estimator of the population median? You can show this in two ways. For any distribution, you can run a Monte Carlo simulation that reveals the bias. And, for some distributions (such as the exponential distribution), you can