March 2007

Reading data from microsoft access files in linux

March 28, 2007 | vikasrawal

Some of the Census 2001 data are in microsoft access files (having filename extensions .mdb). A microsoft access file can have several tables inside, each of which contains data. There is a software called mdbtools that can be used to read access files. The command mdb-tables can be used to see ... [Read more...]

SAS weirdness

March 21, 2007 | John Johnson

From time to time, I'll complain about the weirdness of SAS, the statistical analysis program of choice for much of the pharmaceutical industry. This post is one such complaint.Why, oh why, does SAS not directly give us the asymptotic variance of the M... [Read more...]

simple.scatterplot: Two way distributions

March 21, 2007 | vikasrawal

John Verzani’s book has a title page that shows a scatterplot with histograms of x and y variables along the two axes. It is a very powerful way of looking at two distributions. The plot was generated through a function simple.scatterplot. The function is made available as part ... [Read more...]

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