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From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 6:48 AM
Subject: Help needed ... :-(
> Hello Newsgroup,
> I'm searching for real good books on stats. I'm a student of psychology
and
> we've been taught very much stats. But I read all the time your postings
and
> wonder why I've never heard about that what I read. So what I'm searching
> for is e.g. a profound heuristic, which model or technique is to be used
on
> a specific question of a research or evaluation problem. How important are
> the assumptions of those techniques. Every time I read articles, there are
> used techniques like multiple regression without any hint of data
> examination, prove of assumptions etc. Often there are used equation
models
> with only N=20, factor analysis with only a two-to-one ratio of
observations
> and variables or with dichotomous variables factor analyzed etc. Or there
> are used techniques which I don't even know. I don't know much about time
> series, biostatistics, neural networks or mathematical system theory.
After
> three and a half years of stats lessons I'm more and more confused and
> insecure. Esp. when I'm thinking about my diploma thesis or thinking of
> working as a "scientist practitioner" psychologist I don't know how to use
> my knowledge or build up an applied oriented knowledge base. Maybe some of
> you can help me with this?
> Hopefully and with much regards
> yours Dennis
>
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What you need is a good class in written English!!!!!!!!
DAH
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