"dennis roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 06:42 PM 1/28/2003, Mountain Bikn' Guy wrote: > > >Y is autocorrelated. The X variables are of many different data types, > >including nominal, ordinal, interval and continuous. Some of the continuous > >X's will show autocorrelation. Actually, our data set has thousands of > >independent variables, and I have not actually tested every one for > >autocorrelation. > > interesting ... which brings up another issue ... if you happen to select a > few of special interest AND happen to find some "significant" effects or > patterns ... might not these effects just be chance effects amongst 1000s > of possibilities? > > how is it that you decide which of these 1000s you will examine?
This question is addressed by the field of data mining. I'm not sure if that's still a bad word on this list... > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
