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From p-Values to Bayes Factors

Improve the interpretation of your frequentist analysis output’s strength of evidence by incorporating Bayes factor bounds using SAS.
Nov 13, 2024 6 min read

Some Thoughts on Parenting

I have recently returned to work from my paternity leave. I really enjoyed my time with my youngest and am grateful to SAS for providing 8 weeks of paid paternity leave – a benefit that remains uncommon in the United States.
Aug 22, 2024 6 min read

Programming Links - July

From the null program: Object Oriented C Skeeto’s C coding style Portable Makefiles Beating NumPy’s Matrix Multiplication in C. A list of cli-tools provided by Python.
Jul 10, 2024 1 min read

Get SSH Keys From Github

Did you know you can get your public SSH keys via GitHub? I recently installed Ubuntu Server to VM. During the installation process, it asked for my GitHub username and then populated the authorized_keys file with my public keys.
Apr 22, 2024 1 min read

New MI Feature: Flux Statistics

The Viya 2024.04 release includes a brand new MI feature: new missing data statistics. An important choice when building an imputation model is the selection of variables to be included. One method to help in the variable selection process is the usage of summary statistics such as influx and outflux, as proposed by van Buuren.
Apr 18, 2024 3 min read

Observations on Obstetrics and EBM

We live in the age of evidence-based medicine and an increasing willingness on the part of patients to review medical guidance and actively participate in their care. This includes such personal and emotional areas like pregnancy and birth.
Apr 1, 2024 12 min read

Takeaways from 'On the uses and abuses of regression models'

This weekend I found an interesting new preprint by Carlin and Moreno-Betancur on arxiv titled “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models” so I had to check it out.
Mar 19, 2024 3 min read

Calling R From SAS

The statistics literature is filled with example code and sample data in R. Sometimes I find myself wanting to work through some provided sample data and compare the output from R with SAS code.
Dec 22, 2023 2 min read

Automatic Suspend in Fedora 38

For a while now I’ve recycled an old iMac running Fedora Workstation as a simple homeserver. It’s been working well in the past, but just now with the EOL of Fedora 37 did I get around to updating from Fedora 36 to Fedora 38.
Dec 18, 2023 2 min read

Reproducibility by Sharing Code

Whenever I speak with students, I emphasize the need to share as much code and data as is feasible to enable reproduciblity. The fact that a large amount of research is not reproducible is a big issue that has gotten a lot of traction in the past two decades since Ioannidis published his influental paper.
Sep 12, 2023 4 min read