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- Short Bio:
- Professional applied statistician with over 20 years experience in bio-medical, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and data mining applications, including providing training courses for scientists and engineers with all levels of statistical expertise. Also specialising in the development of custom data analysis applications using the STATISTICA platform and Visual Basic.
* General stats, anova, linear & nonlinear regression, GLMs, graphical data analysis, non-parametrics and multivariate methods.
* Statistical process control, quality control, design of experiments and six-sigma methods.
* Data mining, exploratory analysis, neural networks and predictive modelling.
* Statistical and web programming in Visual Basic, STATISTICA Visual Basic, PHP, Javascript and other languages.
* Teaching statistical concepts and methods to non-statistical audiences.
- My Website or LinkedIn Profile (URL):
- http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mattcoatesstatistician
- Field of Expertise:
- Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, Vizualization, Statistical Consulting, Medical Statistics, Industrial Statistics, Teaching
- Years of Experience in Analytical Role:
- 20+
- Professional Status:
- Technical, Consultant
- What is your Favorite Data Mining or Analytical Website?
- http://www.statsoft.co.uk
- What Other Analytical Website do you Recommend?
- http://www.statsoft.com
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Matt Coates replied to Arun's discussion Discriminant Analysis on Categorical Variables
"Arun
There may be some confusion over terminology here.
First, for the sake of clarity, I should mention that I will use the term, "predictor" to indicate those (continuous or categorical) variables that are being used to make…"
Matt Coates replied to Emry Parssian's discussion Statistica 9 Trial Version
"Emry
The downloadable trial version includes only STATISTICA Advanced and STATISTICA QC, without the Data Miner or other more advanced components. If you contact your local StatSoft office (http://www.statsoftiberica.com/), they should be able to…"
Matt Coates replied to DataLLigence's discussion Test for Difference in Proportions - T Test? Proc GLM?
"It is certainly true that a blind application and reliance on statistical methods without a good understanding of how to interpret the results can be dangerous - but this is not a failing of the methods. In my experience it is much more common for…"
Matt Coates replied to DataLLigence's discussion Test for Difference in Proportions - T Test? Proc GLM?
""Statistically significant" simply means that the difference you have seen is unlikely to have occurred purely by chance and is therefore likely to be a "real" effect. If the result is not statistically significant then, however…"
Matt Coates replied to DataLLigence's discussion Test for Difference in Proportions - T Test? Proc GLM?
"Student's t test is so widely used for the simple reason that it is the only test that many people know. This does not mean that it is appropriate in all these cases and we should be encouraging the use of more appropriate methods wherever…"
Matt Coates replied to Gaetan Lion's discussion Kolmogorov-Smirnov test vs Mann Whitney test for unpaired hypothesis testing?
"You may find this text from the STATISTICA Electronic Manual helpful:
Mann-Whitney U Test
The Mann-Whitney U test assumes that the variable under consideration was measured on at least an ordinal (rank order) scale. The interpretation of the test…"
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