Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-17 Thread Stephen B. Cox
Hi Geoff - just have a quick minute.. so, I'll hazard a response without thinking about it too much :) On 8/16/06, Geoffrey Poole < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Doesn't sqrt(SSx) increase with n? If so, won't the "standard error of > the slope" decrease with increasing sample size?? Yes - th

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Geoffrey Poole
Geoffrey Poole wrote: >> Zar notes that the "standard error of estimate" (AKA "standard error >> of the regression") is a measure of the remaining variance in Y >> *after* taking into account the dependence of Y on X. Bob O'Hara wrote: > Zar says that? That's rubbish: the residual variance is

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen B. Cox
On 8/16/06, Anon. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geoffrey Poole wrote: > > Sarah: > > > > I think the reviewer comment has merit. > > > > I understand your problem as follows: Your goal is to compare the > > "usefulness" (not sure what you means by "usefulness", but we'll go wit= h > > it...) of a

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen B. Cox
On 8/16/06, David Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bob, > > I have a similar question to Sarah's and it may even be the same; > I'm using orthogonal regression to determine the equivalence of two > variables, both with errors. I want to use the S.E. of the slope to > compare to the optimum sl

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Anon.
Geoffrey Poole wrote: > Sarah: > > I think the reviewer comment has merit. > > I understand your problem as follows: Your goal is to compare the > "usefulness" (not sure what you means by "usefulness", but we'll go with > it...) of a regressions across environmental conditions. However, under

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Malcolm McCallum
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Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Geoffrey Poole
Sarah: I think the reviewer comment has merit. I understand your problem as follows: Your goal is to compare the "usefulness" (not sure what you means by "usefulness", but we'll go with it...) of a regressions across environmental conditions. However, under one set of environmental condition

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Stephen B. Cox
Sarah - a "standard error" is the standard deviation of a statistic within a sampling distribution. Most of the time we talk about the standard error of the mean - but other statistics (i.e., parameter etimates), like a regression slope, also have standard errors. So, yes, the se is the sd of the

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread David Bryant
Bob, I have a similar question to Sarah's and it may even be the same; I'm using orthogonal regression to determine the equivalence of two variables, both with errors. I want to use the S.E. of the slope to compare to the optimum slope of one (equivalence among variable responses). I co

Re: standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Anon.
Sarah Gilman wrote: > Is it possible to calculate the standard deviation of the slope of a > regression line and does anyone know how? My best guess after > reading several stats books is that the standard deviation and the > standard error of the slope are different names for the same thing

standard deviation of a slope

2006-08-16 Thread Sarah Gilman
Is it possible to calculate the standard deviation of the slope of a regression line and does anyone know how? My best guess after reading several stats books is that the standard deviation and the standard error of the slope are different names for the same thing. The context of this quest