onefixedstar | Fun with event history analysis (Reply)

I got to play today during our group stats session today! During the first half hour of uninterrupted-by-backseat-programmers SAS programming, I began to remember why I had once enjoyed programming. During the subsequent hour-and-a-half of increasingly frustrating debugging, I began to remember why I chose sociology over computer science. The source of the problem proved to be one number--a 2 where there should have been a 3. Ninety minutes of my life sacrificed to a single digit. And the code still doesn't work, despite several more hours of staring. But hey, that's what the instructor is there for, right? :D

I got the miderm for the course back and did substantially better than I'd expected to. Apparently I understood more than I thought. I just wish I had the time to learn this stuff properly, because I'd really like to come out of this course able to do more than interpret other people's work. Maybe I'll get a chance to go back over it later in the program.