On 08-Mar-09 20:06:21, Rolf Turner wrote: > On 9/03/2009, at 4:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> ... analyzing bad data will just give bad conclusions. > > Fortune? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner
Maybe ... ! (I have sometimes got very good answers from bad data, precisely by analysing how they were bad -- including ascertaining a change of lab technician from playtykurtosis and, once, identifying potential occasions of theft from delivery lorries from anomalies in their cargo docs). Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Mar-09 Time: 21:48:43 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.