This is just out on our YouTube channel: a new video for the International Year of Statistics. The video features several JMP users who talk about the value of statistics to engineers and chemists and in industries such as pharma and education. Watch it, and you'll also hear from John Sall,
They say great minds think alike. We’ve also heard that two heads are better than one. Well, in the case of husband and wife Brenda and José Ramírez, two great minds have combined to develop and teach highly successful, modern quality practices. Deploying traditional techniques such as those developed by
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a traditional method in data analysis and, more specifically, in multivariate analysis. PCA was developed by Karl Pearson in 1901. The goal of PCA is to reduce the dimensionality in a set of correlated variables into a smaller set of uncorrelated variables that explain the majority
Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are likely very familiar with Tina Turner’s song from the soundtrack of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the inspiration for the title of today’s post. If not, here is your opportunity to catch up. Now that we’re all on the same page,
J. Stuart (“Stu”) Hunter is the statistician we are celebrating in the month of March in this International Year of Statistics. He is considered by many people to be one of the most important and influential statisticians of the last half century, especially with regard to applying statistics to problems
What is this position? As the JMP Academic Ambassador, you will build and maintain strategic working relationships by networking with top academic programs that produce JMP users in order to further our JMP Academic Program. What will your responsibilities include? Your responsibilities will include: Driving wider use of JMP at
He’s a sabermetrician. And a psephologist. And if those fancy titles don’t pique your interest, you should know that Nate Silver is a serious statistician. Silver has become famous for: Developing a widely acclaimed system called PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), which predicts player performance, career development
This month we have chosen Florence Nightingale as an influential statistician to celebrate for the International Year of Statistics. While Florence Nightingale is most well-known as the founder of modern nursing and worldwide healthcare reform, she was also a passionate statistician and a pioneer in statistical graphics. Florence Nightingale was born on
"In today's era of big data -- where the computer and network are everywhere and everything can be measured -- you need statistics to make that data useful." -- John Sall, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of SAS Next Wednesday, the creator of JMP will offer more insights about statistics
If you attended this year’s Discovery conference, you may recall Dr. Sheather’s enlightening presentation on marginal model plots. Now, you can easily create marginal model plots in JMP with the Marginal Model Plot Add-in. Marginal model plots are a great addition to your model assessment toolbox — particularly in cases