Thats it… after this post we will be onto R. I took a look at R for everyone and although, it is completely new to me, after working with SAS I recognize the processes of it. That is, you import, structure, cleanse, sort, and manipulate!
The week leading up to the midterm we learned how to create regression modeling. This is an extremely powerful tool. It really is beginning to take shape. I am not a master of SAS yet, however, I wish we were going to continue with the program for a few more weeks. I think with more experimentation and working with the program I will really get the hang of it. It is fun to see how SAS operates and how it is correlating to our statistics and probability modeling class. Sometimes I don’t fully understand what we are doing in SAS until I get some more information in statistics.
I hope my experience with SAS is going to make coding in R easier.
If I had enough data from work or other contractors, I wonder if I would be able to create a regression model for estimating build cost. It would have to account for sq ft, cost of materials, level of quality, finish, etc… It would take quite a bit of data mining to get that started.
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