Re: 10 envelopes, 10 persons

2001-11-19 Thread Glen Barnett
Stan Brown wrote: > > Problem posed me by a student: ten persons (A through J) and ten > envelopes containing cards marked with letters A through J. (Each > letter is in one and only one envelope.) > > The random variable x is the number of people who get the "right" > envelope when the envelope

10 envelopes, 10 persons

2001-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
Problem posed me by a student: ten persons (A through J) and ten envelopes containing cards marked with letters A through J. (Each letter is in one and only one envelope.) The random variable x is the number of people who get the "right" envelope when the envelopes are handed out randomly. Obv

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "RS" == Richard Seymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> And if I may muddy the waters even more, what is the RS> difference between biostatistics and biometry? Dick Depends on which definition of "biometry" you are using. One definition used to be an older name for what is now bi

RE: Maximized lambda4

2001-11-19 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Dennis asked "how do we know what a test's true reliability is?" Osburn knew because he simulated true-score covariance matrices and from these obtained observed score covariance matrices as a function of the true-score matrices and hypothetical values of reliability. More details are in

Re: Maximized lambda4

2001-11-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 01:49 PM 11/19/01 -0500, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: > Callender and Osburn (Educational and Psychological Measurement, >1977, 37, 819-825) developed a method for estimating maximized lambda4, the >greatest split-half reliability coefficient among all possible split halves >for a scale. The

RE: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread Seymann, Richard
And if I may muddy the waters even more, what is the difference between biostatistics and biometry? Dick ___ Richard G. Seymann, Ph.D. Professor of Statistics Director of Academic Assessment Director of the Westover Honors Program Lynchburg College, Lynchburg,

Maximized lambda4

2001-11-19 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Callender and Osburn (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977, 37, 819-825) developed a method for estimating maximized lambda4, the greatest split-half reliability coefficient among all possible split halves for a scale. The method is quite tedious to do by hand, and the authors

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:07:33 -0500, Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > > > What _is_ "biostatistics", anyway? A student asked me, and I > > realized I have only a vague idea. > > > There was a thread on "biostatistics versus statistics" a coup

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-19 Thread Eric Bohlman
John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Roberts wrote: >> At 08:56 AM 11/16/01 -0700, Roy St Laurent wrote: >> >It's not clear to me whether recent posters are serious about these >> >examples, but >> >I will reiterate my previous post: >> > >> >For most mathematics / statistics examination

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "DR" == Dennis Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DR> At 03:08 PM 11/19/01 +, A.J. Rossini wrote: >> > "BW" == Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: >> BW> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: >> >> What _is_ "biostatistics", anyway? A student asked

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 03:08 PM 11/19/01 +, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > "BW" == Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BW> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > > >> What _is_ "biostatistics", anyway? A student asked me, and I > >> realized I have only a vague idea. > > > BW> There was a

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
> "BW" == Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BW> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: >> What _is_ "biostatistics", anyway? A student asked me, and I >> realized I have only a vague idea. BW> There was a thread on "biostatistics versus statistics" a BW> couple y

part. SS

2001-11-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
i have put up a little worked out example of the partitioning of SS in a simple 3 group situation ... for ANOVA ... with a diagram of where the components come from ... http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/introstat/sspart1.png this might be helpful to some ... if you want to print ... yo

Categorical independents and continuous (counts) dependent

2001-11-19 Thread Anna
I am working on a dataset, which involves three categorical (two dichotomies, and one of 5 categories) independent variables and a continuous variable that consists of counts. The idea is to look at the significance of the group differences/ the (main and interaction) effects of the independents o