Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Stu
> My favorite original example is the correlation between number of > annual murders in a city and number of books in its libraries. > Students have no trouble seeing that the two are going to have a > fairly high correlation coefficient(*), but murders don't make > people read and books don't mak

MODELLING ELECTION IN TRIBAL AREA USING BAYESIAN APPROACH

2001-12-05 Thread Aurangzeb Haque
Can someone guide me in the various possibilities regarding some preliminary modeling for a hypothetical election, to be held on the basis of genealogy based adult franchise. Has someone done any work on this type of problem. Would it be possible to have such a model run on a spread-sheet such as

Re: What usually should be done with missing values ...

2001-12-05 Thread Glen
Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Rich Ulrich wrote: > > > > On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 20:57:33 GMT, Jerry Dallal > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is a bit different, though. The criticisms of stepwise > > > selection are directed toward the

Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Stan Brown
Dennis Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >personally, i think it is dangerous in ANY case to say that r = cause ... Hear, hear! My favorite original example is the correlation between number of annual murders in a city and number of books in its libraries. Students have no tro

Re: Stat question

2001-12-05 Thread Glen
Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > You can ask the top students to look at their notes, but you should be prepared > to find that their notes are highly idiosyncratic. Maybe even unusable. Having seen notes of some top students on a variety of occasions (as a student and as a l

Re: Important notice about Final Exam on Thursday

2001-12-05 Thread Glen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Silvert, Henry) wrote in message news:<4EBC97E6B14ED4118ADF00508B658C7937FBC1@exchange>... > Do we all have to be privy to this? [...snipped] I'm not sure, but I'm certain we didn't need to see it all *TWICE*. Glen ===

Re: Important notice about Final Exam on Thursday

2001-12-05 Thread Rich Ulrich
I have a question concerning one detail - On 5 Dec 2001 10:04:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Leitner) wrote: > [ ... ] To use multiple regression > you need to code the independent variables: Gender has 2 level; so > there needs to be 1 coded vector. SES

Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 5 Dec 2001 08:52:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote: > correlation NEVER implies causation ... That is true - in the strong sense, and - in formal logic, and - as a famous quotation among researchers. (And, reported as wrongly contrasted to 'ANOVA'.) Or, correlation always

Re: Gen random numbers from distribution

2001-12-05 Thread Jim Snow
1. George Marsaglia and Wal Wan Tsang published a paper dealing with your problem which gives an efficient procedure for all values of parameters. It is "The Monty Python Method for Generating Gamma Variables" in the Journal of Statistical Software ,vol3,issue 3,1998 .

Re: What usually should be done with missing values ...

2001-12-05 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:39:53 GMT, Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Ulrich wrote: > > [ ... ] > > I don't see much difference. "Identifying predictors" by regression > > analyses -- what is that advice supposed to mean? The criticisms > > of stepwise selection say that it gives

RE: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Dennis Roberts
what if we see, from the side, one person on the right swing his/her fist ... and, as the fist arrives at what appears to be the impact point of the face of a person on the left ... that IMMEDIATELY the person on the left falls backwards and down now, we do this over and over again ... and obs

RE: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Dennis Roberts
perhaps the problem here is with the word ... "cause" say i put in a column some temps in F ... then use the F to C formula ... and get the corresponding C values ... then i do an r between the two and find 1.0 now, is the formula the "cause" of the r of 1? maybe we might see it as a cause bu

CfP: ECAI 2002 WS - IDAMAP 2002

2001-12-05 Thread Peter Lucas
Workshop held in conjunction with ECAI 2002, Lyon, France ** INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND ** ** PHARMACOLOGY 2002 (IDAMAP 2002) ** (Web version of the CfP: http://idamap.org/idamap2002) Peter Lucas (Chair), Lars Asker (Co-Chair), Silvia Mik

CfP: ECAI 2002 WS - IDAMAP 2002

2001-12-05 Thread Peter Lucas
** INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND ** ** PHARMACOLOGY 2002 (IDAMAP 2002) ** (Web version of the CfP: http://idamap.org/idamap2002) Peter Lucas (Chair), Lars Asker (Co-Chair), Silvia Miksch (Co-chair) SCHEDULE o Paper submission deadline - 22 March

Correlation :: causation

2001-12-05 Thread Art Kendall
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --EDBAAFCA76142C5161C4C0BE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I concur. Another way to put it is: The results of statistical analyses are parts of principled arguments about causality. If correlatio

Re: Stat question

2001-12-05 Thread Jon Miller
Stan Brown wrote: > Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: > > > >Stan Brown wrote: > > > >> I would respectfully suggest that the OP _first_ carefully study the > >> textbook sections that correspond to the missed lectures, get notes from > >> a classmate > > > >This part is of do

Re: Important notice about Final Exam on Thursday

2001-12-05 Thread Jerry Dallal
> > Do we all have to be privy to this? > This is sci.stat.EDU. Sending it may have been a blunder, but it is interesting to see how people approach TEACHING statistics. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remar

RE: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Dennis warns "the problem with this is ... does higher correlation mean MORE cause? lower r mean LESS cause? in what sense can think of cause being more or less? you HAVE to think that way IF you want to use the r value AS an INDEX MEASURE of cause ..." Dennis is not going to like this, since he

Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 07:36 AM 12/5/01 -0500, Karl L. Wuensch wrote: > Accordingly, I argue that correlation is a necessary but not a > sufficient condition to make causal inferences with reasonable > confidence. Also necessary is an appropriate method of data > collection. To make such causal infer

RE: Important notice about Final Exam on Thursday

2001-12-05 Thread Silvert, Henry
Do we all have to be privy to this? Henry M. Silvert Ph.D. Research Statistician The Conference Board 845 3rd. Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel. No.: (212) 339-0438 Fax No.: (212) 836-3825 > -Original Message- > From: Dennis Leitner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2

Please ignore the Important notice about Final Exam on Thursday

2001-12-05 Thread Dennis Leitner
Dear Edstat-l'ers, Please accept my apology. I sent the recent message to the wrong listserve. I must be experiencing some "end of the semester" burn-out. ;-) Dennis = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and rema

Important notice about Final Exam on Thursday

2001-12-05 Thread Dennis Leitner
Dear 507ers, I've graded (finally) HW6 and returned them to you. You all did pretty well on it. As soon as I get permission from the student, I'll send you an exemplary solution. But the HW8's were not done well at all, especially part 8(b). It appears that I did not make something clear

Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Dennis Roberts
correlation NEVER implies causation ... and i agree with mike totally At 09:01 AM 12/5/01 -0600, Mike Granaas wrote: >We really need to emphasize over and over that it is the manner in which >you collect the data and not the statistical technique that allows one to >make causal inferences. > >M

Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Granaas
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Karl L. Wuensch wrote: > > > So why is it that many persons believe that one can make causal inferences >with confidence from the results of two-group t tests and ANOVA but not with the >results of correlation/regression techniques. I believe that this delusio

THE PRADO MUSEUM , MADRID

2001-12-05 Thread jai
The Prado Museum , Madrid, Spain. http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/prado.htm Art Share, Share ART , See and Learn :) = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are av

When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
    I opined "correlation is necessary but not sufficient for establishing a causal relationship."  Jim opined "depending on precisely what Karl means by "correlation is necessary," I'd have to disagree strongly.       More nearly precisely what I mean follows, but is long.   When Does Corr

Re: Who said "Correlation does not imply causation".

2001-12-05 Thread Juha Puranen
Stu wrote: > > "Silvert, Henry" wrote: > > > Might I go one step further and point out the correlation does not establish > > a causal relationship primarily because it does not point to directionality, > > at least not without a working hypothesis and some background support. > > Absolutely. Wi

Re: Heuristic text for biologist

2001-12-05 Thread Kevin C. Heslin
"Intuitive Biostatistics" by Harvey Motulsky (Oxford Press) was written with the math-anxious audience in mind. It's a great book. At 05:53 AM 12/5/2001 +, Patrick Crockett wrote: >My sister teaches high school biology in an IB program. She needs to >understand (and be able to teach) some

Tableaux De Bord Informatiques Automatiques

2001-12-05 Thread Acadys France
Tableaux de Bord Informatiques Aut! ! omatiques