Composable, packaged, unbundled, traditional, reverse ETL, zero copy – these are just a few of the terms used to describe customer data platforms (CDPs) today. If you find that understanding the CDP marketspace is a bit like trying to discern meaning from a word salad (defined by Merriam-Webster as “a
The cold of winter and holiday gatherings push people indoors, causing a surge in influenza hospitalizations. Years of above-normal temperatures in southern states bring a species of mosquito that carries malaria to the US. Declining childhood immunization rates threaten to allow previously eradicated diseases like measles to become endemic again.
Statistical software provides methods to simulate independent random variates from continuous and discrete distributions. For example, in the SAS DATA step, you can use the RAND function to simulate variates from continuous distributions (such as the normal or lognormal distributions) or from discrete distributions (such as the Bernoulli or Poisson).
