Outlier detection in space-time data - nonparametric methods ?

1999-11-30 Thread Upmanu Lall
Hi I'm looking for information on outlier detection (possibly using nonparametric methods) methods for multivariate data fields that are irregularly sampled in space and time. The particular application we are working on entails forming spatial grids from the scattered data for each month. All da

Second Year Statistics Project

1999-11-30 Thread janu2002
I'm trying to do a statics project in a second year course. It has been very difficult for me in coming up with a topic. Is there any one with suggestions .. or a sample project to demontrate the idea. Thanks in Advance Karen Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

GARCH

1999-11-30 Thread tmc128
Could anyone tell me how to perform GARCH analysis on time series data? What software do I need to perform this type of analysis? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom Curtin

Re: counting seeds

1999-11-30 Thread Richard A. Beldin, Ph.D.
Consider the mechanisms which reduce the number of live seeds. Hypothesis 1. Soil quality determines what proportion will germinate. Crowding reduces the share of the available nutrient resources per seed. Hypothesis 2. Predation by birds is more likely when the density is higher so that the s

Excel

1999-11-30 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Graham D Smith - [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] I agree with much of what has been said about the shortcomings of Excel. After all this strand of discussion was arose from problems with its ranking procedure. However, I don't think that us

Rank Awful & black boxes

1999-11-30 Thread Muriel Strand
recently i dropped an econometrics course because it was being taught with the point of view of statistics as a black box. having become accustomed during 6 years of engineering studies to learning and understanding the analytical concepts from the ground up (as it were), i found that i just wasn

Student Ratings

1999-11-30 Thread Ed Bailey
By way of introduction -- I teach Elementary Statistics at a Two-year college. (MS - Statisics, PhD - Math Education). Question -- On page 489 of "Elementary Statistics" by Triola (7th), there is a sidebar article on " Student Ratings of Teachers". However, it does not give any

Re: interaction plots

1999-11-30 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 19:10:16 -0600, Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: < ... > > > I too prefer the actual means, but some people (e.g., Rosenthal) > have argued strongly that the residual means should in fact be > reported to demonstrate the nature of the interaction. Jim, - I think that sh

Tenure-track statistics opening at Wake Forest University

1999-11-30 Thread Jim Norris
A tenure-track position in statistics is available at the assistant professor level, beginning August 2000. Duties include teaching statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels and continuing research. A Ph.D. in statistics is required. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Wake

Re: Data sample and log normal distribution

1999-11-30 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
"Donald F. Burrill" wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: > > > Beware - you can't just anti-log the mean and s.d. The median > > unlogged value is the antilog of the mean of the logged values. > > That's interesting. The antilog of the mean of log(X) is the geometric > mean

counting seeds

1999-11-30 Thread Richard M. Barton
A biology student came to me with a data analysis situation that I wasn't sure how to deal with. Sound advice would be appreciated. Scenario: Ben has a number of 1 meter square plots where he placed one or more seeds: 50 plots with 1 seed 10 plots with 25 seeds 10 plots with 50 seeds

counting seeds

1999-11-30 Thread Richard M. Barton
A biology student came to me with a data analysis situation that I wasn't sure how to deal with. Sound advice would be appreciated. Scenario: Ben has a number of 1 meter square plots where he placed one or more seeds: 50 plots with 1 seed 10 plots with 25 seeds 10 plots with 50 seeds

Re: Rank, Awful

1999-11-30 Thread dennis roberts
At 11:37 PM 11/29/99 -0500, Bob Hayden wrote: > >Someone found another bug in Excel's statistics routines. Someone >else came up with a clever alternative. What you have to think about >is all the bugs you have not noticed yet. Anybody can do statistic >with Minitab, but you need a Ph.D. in sta

Re: Fw: Rank Awful

1999-11-30 Thread Graham D Smith
I agree with much of what has been said about the shortcomings of Excel. After all this strand of discussion was arose from problems with its ranking procedure. However, I don't think that users should rely on Excel's statistical functions or analysis tools. Rather, I think that users should treat

Re: Censured data, Optimum Accelerated Censored Life

1999-11-30 Thread Xie Min
You should borrow this book and read it: Nelson, Wayne , 1936- Accelerated testing : statistical models, test plans and data analyses / Wayne Nelson. New York : Wiley , c1990. Jean-Pierre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hi, : I'm