I noticed a box on the kitchen counter last night. Totino’s Party Pizza which my husband had made himself for lunch (cooked in the microwave no doubt….thanks, but I pass….). What caught my attention was the claim that it is “America’s Best Selling frozen pizza.”...
TULSA, OK, USA [June 6, 2013] The 14th annual KDnuggets™ Software Poll, conducted in May, attracted record participation of 1,880 internet voters, more than doubling the previous year's numbers. Once again, StatSoft’s STATISTICA ranked highly among the top tier of commercial general statistical analysis and BI packages, while scoring top usage among commercial dedicated data mining applications...
TULSA, OK, USA [June 6, 2013] Dr. Thomas Hill, StatSoft’s Vice President of Analytic Solutions, delivered an invited talk on "Big Data: Strategies and Opportunities" to India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) in New Delhi on May 28...
For those working with general linear models, this warning message may look familiar:
"Design matrix is ill-conditioned; the ratio of the smallest variance to the largest variance for columns in the design matrix is less than 1.0/SDELTA. If inconsistent results occur, try rescaling the predictors or increasing the SDELTA value.”
Plotting data across time helps to reveal interesting patterns and relationships. This was true of a study of weather and temperature patterns in Illinois that was conducted by Carl von Ende from the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois University. The goal was to visually compare the trends in temperature between two years, 2008 and 2009. In this article, we will explore the steps needed to create such a plot, including the creation of new variables, using time and date functions and graph customization tools...
TULSA, OK, USA [May 20, 2013] - StatSoft, Inc., is pleased to announce its Vice President of Analytic Solutions, Dr. Thomas Hill, has accepted an invitation to present the keynote address at the 2013 “Analytics Conclave on Big Data” in Bangalore, India...
In your statistical analysis adventures with STATISTICA, you may run into some error messages along the way. One such type of error tells you that a variable does not have enough codes. Let’s explore more of what this error is telling us and how to fix the data.
Recently a peer-reviewed article was published on PLOS Medicine which found a 25% lower relative risk of death through a specific treatment offered in a randomized trial to elderly Americans with at least one chronic illness. Even more amazing is that this treatment had no adverse side effects. And the treatment was cost effective. In fact, in the high-risk subgroup those receiving the treatment had 29% fewer hospitalizations and 20% lower expenditures than those who did not receive the treatment.
So what is this magic bullet.....
TULSA, OK, USA [May 7, 2013] - StatSoft, Inc., has released STATISTICA Version 12, the next major step in the evolution of its high-performance predictive modeling and data analytics reporting platform. Building upon the foundations that have already earned STATISTICA more awards than any other data analysis product in the industry, StatSoft has responded to users’ feedback on the evolving business analytics landscape by enhancing or adding powerful new tools that will bring Big Data processing out of the tech room and into the boardroom...