A couple of quick comments here - On 17 Feb 2003 08:55:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote:
> At 09:53 AM 2/17/03 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: > >My apologies to the news group - Maurus didn't give a valid email address. > > > >You seem to be looking for a ratio, of stdev/average. More > >accurately, you > >would like a ratio of a measurement of dispersion divided by a > >measurement of > >central tendency (I think those are the official terms for the concepts:). > > > >the coefficient of variation is the est. stdev/average, or stdev/mean, > >depending on who is talking. > of course, try this will z scores - I can't understand Dennis's comment, because I can't *read* Dennis's comment as an English sentence, Or a meaningful fragment. - The post by Maurus was apparently made directly to sci.stat.edu in its Mailing-list incarnation (which leaves those tag-lines at the end); but his post never was relayed to the s.s.e Newsgroup so far as my ISP is concerned, and I don't find it when I search with Google. Responses to Maurus -- I see this one by Dennis, and one by Jay, and they both feature the Mail-list tag. It looks as if the mailing list failed to re-post the one message by Maurus, but I don't get the list, so I can't check for other oversights. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
