drannmaria

How I did it: Read a couple of applied books on survival analysis to get started. Those helped a lot by giving me the general idea. Read one book and a couple of articles on the mathematics of survival analysis, going through each equation in detail. This helped some and although many people think this step is unnecessary it made me feel more like I knew what I was doing. I then read the SPSS and SAS documentation on various methods, read several artic… Read how I did it…

How I did it: Sat down and read it. I was in junior high school and no doubt I was supposed to be reading something else, like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm or Anne of Green Gables, neither of which I could stand. My daughter, Jenn, when she was about 11, did like Anne. No one ever liked Rebecca.I remember my mother disapproved of my reading choices. She thought Ayn Rand was "selfish". Read how I did it…

How I did it: I saw the northern lights many times, as (too) much of my career and education has taken me to the Great Plains states, near the Canadian border. Each time, I marveled at how beautiful it was and was surprised that some people who live on those regions just take a ho-hum attitude, like I do about earthquakes.I never went looking for the northern lights, I would just see them on a business trip, on my way home from work, or walking back to… Read how I did it…