John Sall and Bradley Jones have a piece in the latest issue of the Joint Newsletter of the SPES and Q&P Sections of the American Statistical Association. Their article has the amusing title "Leptokurtosiphobia: Irrational Fear of Non-Normality." Sall and Jones write that "agonizing over normal probability plots and tests
It’s Monday, and I’m back in my office, having spent most of last week in Las Vegas participating in our Voice of the Customer (VOC) seminar. I’m spending my morning debriefing – sharing insights with colleagues; writing up a trip summary; filling out my expense report. I can knock that
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
The first meeting of the newly formed Mid-Atlantic JMP Users Group will be Sept. 16 at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland. That was one of the announcements at the Discovery 2008 conference (formerly known as the JMP Users Conference) here in Cary, NC, this week. The new group brings
If you ever called or e-mailed a problem to JMP Technical Support, you may have been in contact with Duane Hayes. Duane manages JMP Technical Support for SAS. We recently discussed a tip that also may be helpful when sharing JMP reports with colleagues. Duane: People often send us JMP
Want an easy way to keep up with tech support questions about JMP? You can now get that information delivered to your iGoogle, My Yahoo! or NetVibes page -- or any other platform for displaying RSS feeds. The JMP Web site is offering an RSS feed of entries to the
Take part in the JMP choice experiment online, and you'll help determine the look and feel of reports for the upcoming version of JMP. The experiment will show you pairs of JMP reports with different attributes, and you'll select the report you prefer from among each pair. You'll see a
Brad Jones, JMP's Director of Statistical R&D, has been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the most prominent professional statistical society in the US. This honor recognizes "outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science." Brad has a career-long passion for the field of
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
Check out the article on JMP in the new issue of sascom magazine. It’s lean on words and big on visuals. You’ll see a variety of graphs created in JMP showing how the software helps answer and explore questions from a range of industries and organizations: pharmaceutical, marketing, public policy,