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Tag: JMP – General
If you learn only one Formula Editor function, Word() is the one
Just look at the list of Character functions available in the JMP Formula Editor. Not that anyone is counting, but that's 42 functions! Needless to say, if you've got a character column and want to change it somehow, JMP probably has a function to do it for you. Notice, though,
“The desktop computer is dead” and other myths
The desktop or laptop is now in decline, squeezed from one side by mobile platforms and from the other side by the cloud. As a developer of desktop software, I believe it is time to address the challenges to our viability. Is software for the desktop PC now the living
Celebrating Statisticians: John W. Tukey
“Statistics is a science in my opinion, and it is no more a branch of mathematics than are physics, chemistry and economics; for if its methods fail the test of experience – not the test of logic – they are discarded.” - John Wilder Tukey “Box plot,” “stem and leaf plot,”
AP statistics...learning to solve real-world problems
Chris Olsen, AP Statistics pioneer and author, will lead a workshop at the SAS office in Boston on July 15 and 16. The workshop focuses on developing computing skills that will enable the use of statistical software in the AP Statistics course. To give educators a sense of what they
And the Intel ISEF winners are…
The 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which was held in Phoenix, Arizona, concluded May 17. This year, approximately 1,600 high school students from more than 70 countries and territories competed for more than $4 million in prizes. The winners were recently announced. Congratulations to the winners of
Statistics: The language of science
A recent KD Nuggets poll caught my attention. It asked respondents to complete a sentence as follows: “With the trend towards Big Data and Data-driven Machine Learning methods Statistics will become less important Statistics importance will not change Statistics will become more important, as the foundation of Data Science Not
JMP data modeling challenge launched by ENBIS
ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, has launched the next JMP Challenge sponsored by JMP. You have until June 15 to submit your solution showing how to turn data into practical value. The ENBIS Challenge by JMP is a yearly activity aimed at promoting sound practices of
Making change happen in teaching statistics
Educators from around the world will gather this week at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Research Triangle, NC, to attend this year’s US Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), May 16-18. They will hear from thought leaders and practitioners such as Xiao-Li Meng, Dean of Harvard University's Graduate
Celebrating George Box and Box-Behnken designs
As part of the International Year of Statistics, the JMP Blog is honoring influential statisticians each month. Professor George E.P. Box is the honoree for May. Last week, I wrote about on the first of his two-part paper with J. Stuart Hunter on the family of regular two-level fractional factorial