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About Trust [Software]

posted by Helmut – Vienna, Austria, 2009-09-23 15:50 (5691 d 08:35 ago) – Posting: # 4238
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Dear Yuvraj!

❝ I am really very happy about your lectures.

THX, but remember these statements about ‘trust’:

Jaime: Never trust in any piece of software you haven’t written yourself (and even then you should be cautious…)
Helmut: Have fun, and don’t trust in commercial software!
ElMaestro: It never hurts to have an SOP.
Martin: never never never never use excel for any statistical calculations … and a short time later …
Martin: Never never never never use Excel. Not even for calculation of arithmetic means.
D Labes: Never, never, never use any software! Never, never, never trust any computer!
D Labes:
- Do not use any software without full documentation of the implemented algorithms.
- Do not use any software without knowing what input is desired.
- Do not use any software without recalculation of some known test data (validation).
- Do not use the “Power to know”. Especially if you don’t know. Or have the power . (This is not to insult or bother someone, but it is sometimes really hard to guess what SAS syntax really means and to bring SAS code to produce that results you need!
Ohlbe: Though inspectors are paranoiacs and won’t trust anything unless it is written, an inspection remains a confidence-building process. If somebody cheats, the inspectors will just become even more paranoid, and they may just decide that they can’t trust your documents and data, even if this was just for a totally minor and insignificant detail.
Helmut: Never trust in an old fart with a pocket calculator too lazy to fire up some statistical software.

❝ Sir, I want your suggestion, how to improve my knowledge…

Read,
read,
read.

❝ … and concentration?

योग? Study an instrument? Chess, Go? Tightrope walking, _freeclimb^ing?

❝ I am really very lazy.

Too bad, indeed!

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a ‘genius’ is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. (Thomas Alva Edison)

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Complete thread:

Sample Size Calculation sasikumar 2008-04-03 09:19
- Sample Size Calculation (SAS) Jaime_R 2008-04-03 13:13
- Sample Size Calculation d_labes 2008-04-23 11:54
  - Sample Size Calculation balakotu 2009-09-07 07:51
  - Sample Size Calculation yuvrajkatkar 2009-09-19 09:24
    - Paper, pencil, brain ;-) Helmut 2009-09-19 11:48
      - Paper, pencil, brain ;-) yuvrajkatkar 2009-09-21 15:10
        
        Paper, pencil, brain ;-) Helmut 2009-09-21 15:23
        Paper, pencil, brain ;-) Helmut 2009-09-21 18:33
        
        Paper, pencil, brain ;-) yuvrajkatkar 2009-09-22 16:09
        
        No paper, pencil, brain :-( Helmut 2009-09-22 18:22
        
        about your lectures yuvrajkatkar 2009-09-23 07:27
        
        About TrustHelmut 2009-09-23 13:50
        
        sample size calculation yuvrajkatkar 2009-10-01 13:33
        
        inter- / intra- / total variance Helmut 2009-10-01 13:52
        
        inter- / intra- / total variance yuvrajkatkar 2009-10-01 17:13
        
        Theta?! Helmut 2009-10-01 17:30
        
        sample size for parallel design yuvrajkatkar 2009-10-03 07:44
        
        Reference? Helmut 2009-10-03 13:46
        
        MSE obtain from Parallel study in WinNonlin yuvrajkatkar 2009-10-09 16:46
        
        Parallel study in WinNonlin Helmut 2009-10-10 10:51