[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I said to myself, 'the chances of the first few letters coming from > the beginning of the alphabet are pretty slim. <p> The letters came > out as follows. > > R, W, Q, O, J, M, V, A, H, B, S, G, Z, X, N, T, C, I, E, K, U, P, D, > Y, F and L
Just for fun, I put this data into SPSS and fit a LOWESS curve to the data. You can see the result on my page about splines (yes, I know that LOWESS is not a spline, but it was the only place on my web pages where a graph like this would fit). http://www.childrens-mercy.org/stats/ask/splines.asp It looks like there might be a trend early in the data, but it disappears quickly. Given that any smoother will have greater uncertainty at the edges, I suspect that this trend could be well within sampling error. The Pearson correlation is -0.14 (p=.48). If I have the time, I'll fit a GAM model in S-plus to the data. Steve Simon, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Standard Disclaimer. The STATS web page has moved to http://www.childrens-mercy.org/stats. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
