We've decided not to proceed with the change but the senior management has
been alerted with the uprising SAS license cost. Thank you so much for all
the comments!!!
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>
> Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote:
>> Hmmm, I sense a story in the offing. Was that an accidental emergen
It is true that R does not offer support for custom likelihood functions
in nonlinear mixed models. However you can switch to R and use
AD Model Builder's random effects module http://admb-project.org
This is freely available software and it is more flexible than
proc nlmixed. I'm sure there are pe
Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote:
Hmmm, I sense a story in the offing. Was that an accidental emergency, or one
you created?
Frank E Harrell Jr writes:
I differ with Marc in one way. It is amazing what people can learn when you
create an emergency for them to do so.
Frank
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Frank E Harrell Jr Pr
Hmmm, I sense a story in the offing. Was that an accidental emergency, or one
you created?
Frank E Harrell Jr writes:
> I differ with Marc in one way. It is amazing what people can learn when you
> create an emergency for them to do so.
>
> Frank
> --
> Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair
I differ with Marc in one way. It is amazing what people can learn when
you create an emergency for them to do so.
Frank
Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Kelvin Lam wrote:
I should elaborate the situation a bit more. We store our data in
UNIX and
have been using UNIX
We use SAS and R here (a biostat department and consulting unit), in
part because there are some things SAS does that R doesn't. In
particular, we use SAS proc nlmixed with custom likelihood functions. R
has similar capability but does not allow custom likelihood; the authors
say adding it would
On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Kelvin Lam wrote:
I should elaborate the situation a bit more. We store our data in
UNIX and
have been using UNIX SAS for our work. My Biostat dept has 40 SAS
users
from which at most 10 also use R. The Epi/Grad Students/Investigators
combine for another 30-
I should elaborate the situation a bit more. We store our data in UNIX and
have been using UNIX SAS for our work. My Biostat dept has 40 SAS users
from which at most 10 also use R. The Epi/Grad Students/Investigators
combine for another 30-40 not-so-frequent SAS users let alone R. So we are
ta
Kel Lam wrote:
> My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while, and
> SAS is starting to charge us a very deep amount for license renewal.
> Since we are a non-profit organization that is definitely not
> sustainable. The team is brainstorming possibility of switching to R,
>
On Jul 16, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Kum-Hoe Hwang wrote:
I work for a research institute. I have used R for several years.
I think there are some good and bad sides followings:
Good sides are: I can use new statistical methods from R. no license
fee..
Bad sides are : physical memory in PC is an
I work for a research institute. I have used R for several years.
I think there are some good and bad sides followings:
Good sides are: I can use new statistical methods from R. no license fee..
Bad sides are : physical memory in PC is an obstacle (max. 3GB), some
package of R is still being deve
Kel Lam wrote:
My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while, and
SAS is starting to charge us a very deep amount for license renewal.
Since we are a non-profit organization that is definitely not
sustainable. The team is brainstorming possibility of switching to R,
at least
*hum*
How much of the "employes" of your institute use statistical softwares? 1-5?
5-20? 20-50?
I think a brief description could help on the discussion.
cheers
milton
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Kel Lam wrote:
> My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while, and
> S
My institute has been heavily dependent on SAS for the past while, and
SAS is starting to charge us a very deep amount for license renewal.
Since we are a non-profit organization that is definitely not
sustainable. The team is brainstorming possibility of switching to R,
at least gradually. I am
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