Power in Numbers

At SAS, our technology solutions can solve big problems and affect lives in small – but significant – ways. It’s the same with statistics. Everything from predicting the weather to protecting your heath can boil down to a numbers game, and that’s why SAS is rallying around the International Year of Statistics. We’ll explore fresh angles on the topic, such as:

Career insight from real-world statisticians. Blog posts and articles on the hottest trends. Predictions on the future of statistics.

More than anything, we’re out to prove that statistics are fascinating, fundamental – and a big part of our future. It’s shaping up to be an insightful year. Let’s make it count.

Featured articles

• SAS blogger on statistics, big data and simplicity (May 21, 2013)
• Box & Lucas: Designed experiments for nonlinear models (May 20, 2013)
• Celebrating George Box and Box-Behnken designs (May 13, 2013)
• Discovering and celebrating statistics (May 10, 2013)
• SAS loves stats: Mark Bailey (May 8, 2013)
• Celebrating statisticians: George E.P. Box (May 6, 2013)
• SAS goes big in Texas at INFORMS 2013 (May 3, 2013)
• 2013 is all about statistics! (May 1, 2013)
• The role of statistics in the top public health achievements of the 20th century (April 15, 2013)
• SAS loves stats: Di Michelson (April 12, 2013)
• Statistics in high school?! (April 9, 2013)
• Celebrating statisticians: More on Gertrude Cox (April 3, 2013)
• Celebrating statisticians: Gertrude Cox (April 1, 2013)
• Why JMP users love statistics (March 18, 2013)
• Box score analytics: the secret to the Final Four (March 19, 2013)
• Jerome Cornfield: The statistician who established risk factors for lung cancer and heart disease (March 18, 2013)
• What is statistics and why should we care? (Quarter one, 2013)
• Construct normal data from summary statistics (March 11, 2013)
• We don’t need another hero ... or do we? (March 6, 2013)
• Celebrating Statisticians: J. Stuart Hunter (March 4, 2013)
• A better than median year (February 15, 2013)
• Documenting statistics: A trip down memory lane (February 13, 2013)
• McDonald’s is anything but average with analytics (January 16, 2013)
• Celebrating statisticians: Florence Nightingale (February 4, 2013)
• Getting started in the year of statistics (January 23, 2013)
• Stat Wars goes Hollywood (January 15, 2013)
• Why statistics is essential (January 14, 2013)
• How to handle percent (%) values in SAS (January 9, 2013)
• The Year of Statistics Is Here – Now Celebrate! (January 3, 2013)
• Celebrating statisticians: Ronald A. Fisher (January 7, 2013)
• Using statistics to help you... get dressed (January 4, 2013)
• 12 Tips for SAS Statistical Programmers (January 3, 2013)
• A year for statistics (January 2, 2013)
• Warming up for the International Year of Statistics with some “statistique à la française” on the Nobel Prize winners (December 19, 2012)
• It’s war… Stat Wars! (December 11, 2012)
• Russ Wolfinger elected 2012 AAAS Fellow (December 5, 2012)
• Hunter and Salsburg on how statistics has evolved (October 15, 2012)

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