[BlindMath] Seeking Out Free-Access Accessible Statistics Resources

[Ed Summers]

HI Zac,

Check out this AFB AccessWorld article for a review of free and accessible SAS resources for students with visual impairments or blindness:
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pubnew.asp?DocID=aw190708

I also encourage you to post your specific question to the global community of SAS experts at https://communities.sas.com/.

Best,
Ed

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Hello:



My knowledge of statistics for a masters student is laughable. My current thesis project, which happens to be in a subject area I hope to develop a career around, looks at the effect of various management practices and their relationship to mean farm milk quality parameters on Southeast dairy farms.
More specifically, I'm looking at the interaction these management practices have on milk quality in the presence of hyperthermia conditions.



Multiple models for predicting hyperthermia from various  Meteorological parameters for various species of livestock at various stages of life have been developed using retrospective production records. Models specific to lactating dairy cows have been relatively well documented compared to other ruminant species. However, many of the models differ slightly on the inclusion and enthesis placed on parameters such as relative humidity, solar radiation, wind speed, black globe vs. wet bulb temperature, etc. What's more, several investigators use broken-line, linear, and nonlinear models to evaluate thermal neutrality.



I am not experienced enough, and under enough pressure by my committee so I cannot perform a systematic review or meta-analysis, although I'd like to someday, to find the best model for my project. However, I was thinking of using a broken-line regression model, similar to the one employed by Hammami et al., (2013), to establish threshold values for hyperthermia using somatic cell count as my predictor variable. Would any one be able to suggest slightly more advanced tutorials accessible with JAWS V.17.0 I could access to try to help me? I have my committee members to guide me, but in order to really understand my statistical methods I need to read it to understand it.
I've attached a MS Word file (derived using OpenBook) as well as a MS Excel file with tables (from HTML version) from Hammami et al., (2013) if it helps.



Any suggestions, comments, questions or concerns are all welcome. I know I've most likely put my foot in my mouth and misused some terminology and left out details that would help the gurus on this list to help me; and I humbly beg your forgiveness. If the files did not attach, please contact me off-list and I'll provide them.





Kind regards,



Zac



Zachary Mason

M.S. Student

Animal and Dairy Sciences

Mississippi State University