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Clint's ramblings: July 2013

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Monday, July 15, 2013. Pitztal Gletscher 95k: DNF. The start of 3,300 feet of climbing over 3 miles. Brutal. The Pitztal Gletscher 95k. The original course was suppose to traverse the Pitztal Glacier but the day before the race the organizers re-routed the course for safety concerns due to too much snow. The original race featured 7,100 meters ( 23,300 feet) of elevation gain. Elevation gain/loss - - oh how mistaken I was! The were 70 runners offic...

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Clint's ramblings: December 2012

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Saturday, December 22, 2012. Local-ize the Variable Label. In Stata, you can assign virtually any value to a local macro and in the simplest case, you designate the macro with local. Followed by the name given to the macro followed by the contents of the macro. Local myvars age gender income sex. Local text "The result of the test is ". In the first example, the macro name is myvars. And in the second example, the macro name is text. The variable l...

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Clint's ramblings: June 2012

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Friday, June 29, 2012. El Diablo" and the Trail Peñalara 60k. Seis, Seis, Seis! Si, Si, El Diablo! An ominous portent of how my day would unfold? Or did the race organizers have a twisted sense of humor and assign the number to the only runner from Austria knowing that Adolf Hitler - - the modern-times anti-Christ - - was, in fact, born in Austria? The fire road en route to the first aid station. Miles The next four miles led us to the summit of P.

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Clint's ramblings: October 2012

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Ordinal Regression Probability Ratio. Frac{Pr(y = 1 vert { boldsymbol{X=x} )}{Pr(y = 0 vert { boldsymbol{X=x} )}$. Now consider the ordinal logit model:. Frac{P(Y geq y i vert { boldsymbol{X=x} )}{1 - P(Y geq y i vert { boldsymbol{X=x} )} = frac{P(Y geq y i vert { boldsymbol{X=x} )}{P(Y y i vert { boldsymbol{X=x} )} $. The logit model likelihood function here. And the logit model maximum likelihood estimates here. Many of...

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Clint's ramblings: February 2013

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Monday, February 4, 2013. Stata and $ LaTeX$: Descriptive Statistics. First, I open a $ LaTeX$ file (WinEdt actually) and include everything (e.g. preamble) up until the first section{.}. Usepackage[letterpaper,left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry}. Usepackage{booktabs,tabularx,epsfig,graphicx,epstopdf,pdflscape}. Usepackage{parskip} % no indent for each paragraph but vertical space instead. Rank - - frequency distribution. Tabou...

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Clint's ramblings: July 2014

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Tahoe Rim Trail 50m Race Report. En route to the mile 43 aid station. I was nervous about this race. I DNF'd the Highlands Sky 40 miler. Illness) and the Pitztal Gletcher 95k. The race director was quite proud of the aid stations and true to his word, each was memorable so I'll review my race by way of each aid station. Hobart, mile 6. An uneventful, long, gentle ascent led the runners into this aid station although when th...

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Clint's ramblings: June 2013

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Zugspitz Basetrail 35.9k: A quasi-ultramarathon. View of the Zugspitz from our hotel room. Trying to civilize trail runners. Lisa and me at the start. They wouldn't step aside even though I was practically stepping on the heels of the runner in front of me. I'm surprised he couldn't feel my breath on the back of his neck. I was mildly annoyed, especially since I expected these two (German? A few meters from the finish line!

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Clint's ramblings: September 2012

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Going the Distance: Position in the Pack. On Saturday, September 22nd, I ran the. Wörthersee Trail Maniak 57k. Ultramarathon (the race report is here. And as with the previous ultra I ran. Log using worth57k graph, replace. Program: worth57k graph.do. Task: graph distribution of finish times w/ my time highlighted. Born on date: 20120925. Convert string time variables to numeric time variables. Rename `var' temp `var'.

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Clint's ramblings: June 2015

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PhD, Programming, and Analysis. Gangly, Pasty Endurance. Thursday, June 4, 2015. Cayuga Trails 50m: Unexpectedly Long Slog. I struggled in this race. I wasn't really expecting to have much problem with this race but when the muscles in my upper, inner thigh tightened up less than 15 miles in - it was almost inevitable the proverbial wheels were going to come off - I knew it was shaping up to be a long day. Pre-race photo. Looking pretty chipper here! The Cayuga Trails 50. But it was and that marked the b...