Re: samp. w or w/o replacement

2001-10-15 Thread Jay Warner
Dennis Roberts wrote: > seems to me that if you are talking about, for example, generating a > sampling distribution of means, ... then each and every SRS is assumed to > be randomly and INDEPENDENTLY drawn from said population ... thus, sampling > with replacement is assumed > > if not, each NEX

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Alan McLean
Can I claim the $1,000,000? There is certainly an even prime: 2. Alan Nomen Nescio wrote: > > >Mr. Dawson wrote: > > >Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what > >mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him > >by somebody who: > >

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Alan McLean
Ignoring the error in saying (2) that all primes are odd - where has 2 disappeared to? - you are highly confused about the difference between "if ... then " and "if and only if then ." Correcting (3) to: The sum of any two primes greater than 2 is even. This is true - but it does NO

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Reg Jordan
Well, OK. But one of the conditions of this pathetically drawn out pissing match was "...for any prime greater than 2..." Perhaps this thread can now be put mercifully to rest. reg - Original Message - From: "Ronny Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nomen Nescio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <

Squared CUSUM

2001-10-15 Thread David B
Hi, I am looking for some synthetic (or even some not so synthetic) papers/courses about the squared CUSUM test of stability on the web (I didn't manage to find any and it seems to be just beyond standard statistics textbooks). Anyone having something about it please? David B ==

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread meeroh
In article <9qf3la$1b2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you take any two primes their sum is OBVIOUSLY even. Such as 2 and 3 :-) But I know what you meant, and I know what your point is, so we can both killfile him now... meeroh -- Using random signatures is

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread dennis roberts
a prime # is a natural number GREATER than 1 that can be divided ONLY by 1 and itself ... a prime number has NO factors other than 1 and itself i think 2 qualifies ... and is not 2 ... even? send check to bob ASAP At 10:40 PM 10/15/01 +0200, you wrote: > >Mr. Dawson wrote: > > >Well,

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Ronny Richardson
At 10:40 PM 10/15/01 +0200, you wrote: >### Dear Mr. Dawson, please send me at least ONE even prime >### and i shall give you $1,000,000. Well, I am not Mr. Dawson but two (2) is both prime and even. You can send the check to the address below. Dr. Ronny Richardson Associate Prof

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
>Mr. Dawson wrote: >Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what >mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him >by somebody who: > >(a) believes all primes to be odd; >... ### Let's assume that any prime is NOT odd

Faculty positions in statistics

2001-10-15 Thread rchagant
Please post and circulate among your students and colleagues.  Thank you so much. -Rao Chaganty *** FACULTY POSITIONS, TENURE TRACK DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Applications are invited for tw

some GARCH questions (long)

2001-10-15 Thread David B
I am trying to estimate a univariate TARCH (-X) model by Maximum Likelihood from about 4000 data points using Excel and its Solver. And... It seems to work ! Still, I would like to know : 1) Is Excel solver really trustworthy on such an issue (or more generally for quite complex estimation probl

Re: Final Exam story

2001-10-15 Thread Jon Miller
"Robert J. MacG. Dawson" wrote: > (On the other hand if they are in political science or international > relations and have read Schelling on "The Strategy of Conflict", they will > probably all pick the left front tire (or right front in Britain), as the most > "distinct" one. In fact,

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Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Stuart Gall
> Hello Stuart, > 1.Is sum of every two odds = even ? (Y/N) > Answer: Yes. > 2.Is any prime is odd? (Y/N) > Answer: Yes. > 3.Generalizing item #1 and #2, >Is sum of any two primes = even ? (Y/N) > Answer: Yes. > 4.If you agree with item #3 (if not - please argue - why), it means that > you ar

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Rich Ulrich
- Mathematical logic is a lot tougher when your translation fails to properly distinguish "any" and "every" and "some." On 15 Oct 2001 07:18:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Fairman) wrote: [ ... ] > 4.If you agree with item #3 (if not - please argue - why), it means that > you are also agr

Re: Are parametric assumptions importat ?

2001-10-15 Thread Michael Prager
Voltolini wrote: > >> Hi, I am Biologist preparing a class on experiments in ecology including > a short and simple text about how to use and to choose the most commom > statistical tests (chi-square, t tests, ANOVA, correlation and regression). > > I am planning to include the idea that testing

Re: Standardized Confidence Intervals

2001-10-15 Thread Warren
Dear group, It seems to me that the one issue here is that when we measure something, then that measure should have some meaning that is relevant to the study hypotheses. And that meaning should be interpretable so that the width of the CI does have meaning...why would you want to estimate the

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him by somebody who: (a) believes all primes to be odd; (b) believes that A=>B implies B=>A; (c) has never heard of Goldbach

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Dr. Fairman
"Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<9qa466$4je$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > "Dr. Fairman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Well no I am afraid not, because although for all p prime p = 2*n+1 is true > it is not true tha

Re: Final Exam story

2001-10-15 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Donald Burrill wrote: > > "The story is about six students who ... The instructor ... tells them > to report the next day for an exam with only one question. If they all > get it right they all pass. They were seated at corners of the room and > could not communicate." > > Must have been an

Re: Final Exam story

2001-10-15 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Dubinse wrote: > > I had promised a colleague a story that illustrates probability and > now I forgot how to solve it formally. The story is about six > students who go off on a trip and get drunk the weekend before > their statistics final. They return a few days late and beg for a > secon

Re: Bimodal distribution

2001-10-15 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Desmond Cheung wrote: > > Is there any mathematical analysis to find how much the two peaks stand > out from the other data? Is there any formulas to find the > variance/deviation/etc that's similar to the unimodal distribution case? In answer to the latter question - excatly the ones