Tag: Statistics

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Why statistics is essential

Note: John Sall, co-founder and Executive VP of SAS, recently sat down to talk about why statistics matters and what the International Year of Statistics means. SAS is a participant in Statistics2013. Sall will talk further about statistics in a live webcast on Jan. 23 as part of the Analytically

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Extended Summary Statistics Add-in for JMP

The Summary platform in JMP offers an easy way to report many statistics, over multiple “By” groups, in data table format. The Distribution platform offers up an even greater variety of statistics, and we have had some customers ask for an easy way to get a Summary-style report of these.

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Celebrating statisticians: Ronald A. Fisher

JMP users have spoken! On LinkedIn and Facebook, they overwhelmingly chose Ronald A. Fisher as the influential statistician to be profiled first in the JMP Blog as part of our celebration of the International Year of Statistics. Here's what some voters had to say about Fisher: "Fisher laid the foundations

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A year for statistics

You may have heard the news that 2013 is the International Year of Statistics, a wordwide celebration of the contributions of statistics, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. Nate Silver’s near-perfect prediction of the presidential election and popular fare such as the recent Oscar-nominated Brad Pitt-starring film Moneyball

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Get ready to celebrate statistics!

As we wind down in 2012 and reflect on the past, we also want to look ahead. Next year will be an even bigger year for analytics. 2013 is the first International Year of Statistics, a worldwide celebration of statistics. This global celebration is timely, given the growing interest in

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Identifying multivariate inliers and outliers

We’re nearing the end of this series of posts on fraud detection in clinical trials and some upcoming features of JMP Clinical 4.1 that help identify unusual observations. We’ve described how visit dates and measurements taken in the clinic can signify problems at the clinical site, and discussed how trial

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Russ Wolfinger elected 2012 AAAS Fellow

Congratulations to Russ Wolfinger, PhD, who was elected a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Wolfinger was chosen for his "path-breaking statistical software used to analyze correlated data, promotion of statistical reasoning in science, and leadership in analysis of gene expression data," the AAAS said.

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Visualizing the variability of a curve using bootstrapping

This is part 4 of a series of blog posts on the new bootstrap feature in JMP Pro, Version 10, that began with an introduction to one-click bootstrapping. In previous posts in this series, we have looked at bootstrapping functions of the output and multiple tables simultaneously. In this post,

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Bootstrap multiple tables simultaneously with JMP Pro

This is part 3 of a series of blog posts on the bootstrap feature in JMP Pro, Version 10. Previously, we exploited the fact that Distribution will give Bootstrap confidence limits anytime that there is a BootID• column present in the data table. Part 1 introduced one-click bootstrapping in JMP

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Using the bootstrap for functions of statistics

This is part 2 of a series of blog posts on the new bootstrap feature in JMP Pro, Version 10. The first part introduced one-click bootstrapping. Sometimes, your quantity of interest might not be reported directly in a JMP report window. Instead it might be calculated as a function of

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