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Rick Wicklin commented on Vincent Granville's blog post Top analytic blogs and websites, with trending information
Rick Wicklin replied to Zabi ulla.S's discussion Outliers in regression environment in the group Analytical Techniques
"Yes, OLS is influenced by outliers (extreme values of the response variables) and by high-leverage points (extreme values in the space of the regressors. Robust regression techniques are not difficult to use, and most software programs support…"
Rick Wicklin commented on Andrew Marane's blog post Visualizing Large Data Sets
"For a book on statistical visualization of large data sets, see Graphics of Large Datasets by Unwin, Theus, and Hofmann"
Rick Wicklin commented on Vincent Granville's blog post Identifying the number of clusters: finally a solution
"This is reminiscent of a "scree plot," which can be used to estimate the number of principal components. I like graphical methods like this.
There has been a lot of work done on methods for estimating the number of…"
Rick Wicklin commented on Capri's blog post Barriers to hiring analytic people
"@PeterWilliams SAS is a big company and we hire many, many, people with high-level programming skills. In fact, all of the SAS "solutions" are written using SAS, so obviously SAS programming skills are essential for those positions!…"
Rick Wicklin commented on Vincent Granville's blog post How to detect a pattern? Problem and solution.
"Nice post. I like it. For your statistical readers, I'll add that there are some simple ways to test for the randomness and uniformity of…"
Rick Wicklin commented on Capri's blog post Creativity vs. Analytics: Are These Two Skills Incompatible?
"Here are some thoughts by Thomas Redman, along with 30+ comments:
http://www.allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=1414&doc_id=230918
Summary: curiosity, persistence, and good communication skills are essential qualities in data analysts."
Rick Wicklin commented on Capri's blog post Barriers to hiring analytic people
"At SAS, one of the difficulties are finding candidates that have depth in statistics and also demonstrated computational abilities in a low-level language like C/C++, FORTRAN, etc. There are many smart candidates graduating from statistics…"
Rick Wicklin replied to Vincent Granville's discussion R / Splus / SPSS Clementine / JMP / Salford Systems memory limitations
"A slight correction: SAS procedures are smart enough to only read the variables that are actually used for each analysis. SAS users don't have use the DATA step to filter out variables before conducting an analysis."
Rick Wicklin commented on Capri's blog post Creativity vs. Analytics: Are These Two Skills Incompatible?
"At last year's JSM, there was a panel discussion titled "The World of Applied Statistics: Where Do You Fit In?" The panel was mostly VPs or Directors of research in government, pharmaceutical, and financial industries. When…"
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- Short Bio:
- Rick Wicklin, PhD, is a senior researcher in computational statistics at SAS and is a principal developer of PROC IML and SAS/IML Studio. His areas of expertise include computational statistics, statistical graphics, and modern methods in statistical data analysis. Rick is author of the book Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software.
- My Website or LinkedIn Profile (URL):
- http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml
- Field of Expertise:
- Predictive Modeling, Statistical Programming, Vizualization
- Years of Experience in Analytical Role:
- 14
- Professional Status:
- Technical
- Interests:
- Networking
- What is your Favorite Data Mining or Analytical Website?
- http://www.sas.com
- Your Company:
- SAS
- Industry:
- Statistical software
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