Looking for probability book.

1999-12-01 Thread Patrick D. Rockwell
There was a book published by Wiley in 1969 called "Discrete Distributions" by Samuel Kotz. I tried looking for it at http://www.amazon.com but I couldn't find the title. Instead, I found "Univariate Discrete Distributions". Would that be the same thing but with a new title? -- Patrick D. Rockwe

Re: counting seeds

1999-12-01 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On 30 Nov 1999, Richard M. Barton wrote: > 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: >

stats packages for Unix

1999-12-01 Thread Bob Hayden
Any advice on basic stats. packages for Unix/Linux? We used Minitab on a DEC alpha box using DEC Unix. That was fine by me but the DEC was too expensive to maintain. So, we replaced it with a FreeBSD system runing on a pile of Intel boxes. But, Minitab does not run on that, so we started using

Re: stat software for macintosh

1999-12-01 Thread Jan de Leeuw
At 4:25 PM -0800 12/1/99, Muriel Strand wrote: >i'd appreciate anyone's current thoughts on what's the best stat software for >the mac these days. (specifically a g3). > >thanks in advance for your advice. > >-- >Any resemblance of any of the above opinions to anybody's official position is >comp

Re: Microsoft Excel statistical accuracy (IMPORTANT INFORMATION!)

1999-12-01 Thread David A. Heiser
I have avoided getting into this hassle. The argument is basically which screw is better, a slotted head or a Phillips head, a metric screw or an American standard one. The various stat packages are all tools to get a job done. Obviously one tool will not do everything. EXCEL is built u

RE: Microsoft Excel statistical accuracy (IMPORTANT INFORMATION!)

1999-12-01 Thread Glenn Crouch - ESB
> And of course, if you want to do any statistical analysis > within Excel, then > download a free copy of Analyse-it from our web-site. Doesn't appear to be "free" rather a 14-day trial version or am I missing something? Glenn Crouch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:36017076 ESB Consultancy, http:

stat software for macintosh

1999-12-01 Thread Muriel Strand
i'd appreciate anyone's current thoughts on what's the best stat software for the mac these days. (specifically a g3). thanks in advance for your advice. -- Any resemblance of any of the above opinions to anybody's official position is completely coincidental. Muriel Strand, P.E. Air Resources

1980 Census data

1999-12-01 Thread Natasha Vasilev
CensusCD 1980. It took until 1999, but finally 1980 Census data is in a format that anyone can use. Time series analysis on areas as small as a Census Tract, can now be done with over 1,500 variables. Mapping software and boundaries for 1980 tracts, counties, states, places, and MCD, are include

Re: probability question

1999-12-01 Thread MARTIN MCKENZIE
Hi I am not really a Statistician even though I get to teach the subject. But I do enjoy playing with things, especially if I can find a way to do it with (dare I say it --) an electronic spreadsheet! This question concerns a straightforward linear system of equations; there are n equations i

Re: counting seeds

1999-12-01 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 30 Nov 1999 07:23:19 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard M. Barton) wrote: > ... > 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 > > He replicated that design with four

Microsoft Excel statistical accuracy (IMPORTANT INFORMATION!)

1999-12-01 Thread James Huntington
"Graham D Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 00c701bf3b2a$59f61d30$066c51c2@f19a">news:00c701bf3b2a$59f61d30$066c51c2@f19a... > 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 > procedu

Re: Student Ratings

1999-12-01 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 a

Re: Second Year Statistics Project

1999-12-01 Thread Jerry Dallal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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. If it's free form, do something that interests you! What'

Re: Student Ratings

1999-12-01 Thread Michelle McGinn
Ed Bailey asks > 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 information on the studies used for the claim that student > evaluations have a negative correlation with amount

probability question

1999-12-01 Thread Yonah Russ
how do you solve a problem like this one? thanks in advance --- X is a chance variable such that X(omega)={1,2,3...,n} and for every i in {1,2,3...n}, 4P(X=i+2)=5P(X=i+1)-P(X=i) find the breakdown of X.

Re: Student Ratings

1999-12-01 Thread Dale Berger
A relevant article on biases in our judgments of what we learn is the following: Bjork, Robert A.(1995). Memory and metamemory considerations in the training of human beings. In J. M. A. P. Shimamura (Ed.), Metacognition: Knowing about knowing (pp. 185-205). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT

Microsoft Excel statistical accuracy (IMPORTANT INFORMATION!)

1999-12-01 Thread James Huntington
"Graham D Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 00c701bf3b2a$59f61d30$066c51c2@f19a">news:00c701bf3b2a$59f61d30$066c51c2@f19a... > 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 > procedu