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Rick WicklinMarch 4, 2024 0

The Number-Word Game

Have you heard about the Number-Word Game? This is a simple game that has the following rules: Start with any positive integer. Write down the English word for the integer. Count the number of letters in the word. This gives a new positive integer. Go to (2). Repeat until a

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Rick WicklinFebruary 28, 2024 0

Using colors to visualize groups in a bar chart in SAS

I sometimes see analysts overuse colors in statistical graphics. My rule of thumb is that you do not need to use color to represent a variable that is already represented in a graph. For example, it is redundant to use a continuous color ramp to represent the lengths of bars

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinFebruary 26, 2024 0

On using flexible distributions to fit data

With four parameters I can fit an elephant. With five I can make his trunk wiggle. — John von Neumann Ever since the dawn of statistics, researchers have searched for the Holy Grail of statistical modeling. Namely, a flexible distribution that can model any continuous univariate data. As the quote

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