Tag: Year of Statistics

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Celebrating statisticians: Gertrude Cox

This month, we celebrate Gertrude Mary Cox, one of the pioneers of academic statistics departments in the United States and one of the first female statisticians. She has been dubbed the "First Lady of Statistics." Her efforts were fundamental to the development of the vibrant statistics community in the Research

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Why JMP users love statistics

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,

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We don’t need another hero … or do we?

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,

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Celebrating Statisticians: J. Stuart Hunter

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

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Celebrating statisticians: Florence Nightingale

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

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Predictive modeling in the life sciences

This past week, Nate Silver held an “Ask Me Anything” chat on Reddit. There were several very good questions, one of which I found particularly important as we begin the International Year of Statistics: “What is the biggest abuse of statistics”? To which Nate replied: “Overfitting.” This response is very

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Analytically Speaking with John Sall on statistics

"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

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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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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