Tobacco Road and the Triangle region of North Carolina are generally known in sports for college basketball, but this fall, the three schools in the Triangle (Duke, NCSU, and UNC) are all doing well in football. Last weekend, after all three teams won their respective games to improve to a combined 17-4 record, it got me…
This is a followup to my previous blog post that tried to determine the "Group of Death" in the 2015 Women's World Cup. Given the format of the tournament this year, perhaps it would have been best to define two groups of death -- the other four groups saw three of their four teams move onto the knockout stage (final 16…
The 2015 Women's World Cup is underway, and the US team has already notched its first victory in Group D play. I was curious to see if the US had been placed in a "Group of Death" -- meaning that its group had the strongest teams in it. The women's World Cup has a slightly different format than the men's World Cup. After…
A comment on Re: how to change default summary statistics displayed in distributions made me realize that it might not be obvious to a lot of JMP users that some platforms have multiple platform entries in the Platform Preferences window. In the case of this particular discussion question, some options in the Distribution…
Once again, it's the time of year where many people in the US try to pick the winners of the 63 games in the NCAA college basketball tournament. (The tournament starts with 68 teams with 4 games that occur prior to the Round of 64. Generally, you start with the Round of 64 when picking a bracket.) See Wikipedia for more…
The 2015 Design and Analysis of Experiments (DAE) conference will be held later this week on SAS campus in Cary, NC. I plan to present a poster on Thursday about creating a testing plan for an analytical platform (Destructive Degradation) new in JMP 12. I developed the test plan using the new Covering Array module in JMP…
The documentation for JMP must meet the needs of JMP users with a diverse set of backgrounds. The needs of one group of users can differ markedly from the needs of another group. For instance, some users report that there is too much statistical jargon in the documentation while others comment that there is too little…
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