On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:00:52 -, "Haider Al-Katem"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have conducted a factor analysis on some questionnaire items. The
> dependent variables that I am measuring for example ('Intention To Buy',
> 'Attitude towards a product' and 'Trust in buying the product from a
On 18 Dec 1999 23:50:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Archtopist) wrote:
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> I've constructed a 2X5 contingency table for vegetation type (burn/no burn, veg
> type 1, type 2... type 5) and ran a chi square using the number of acres in
> each cell as N.
> I am concerned that this is a large and ar
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Burke Johnson wrote:
> A student of mine is getting ready to develop a GLM prediction model
> that will include a mixture of categorical and quantitative predictor
> variables. We will probably not include interaction terms in the model
> (i.e., it will be a main effects on
This thread has certainly been an interesting one, particularly the
discussion about sorting out the use of t and z tests for the mean. It's
not only in texts for psychology students that the authors present the n
> 30 'rule' as a law of nature cast in bronze and elevated to the peerage! Apart fro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Frick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jerry Dallal wrote:
>> Robert Frick wrote:
>> > I know it is hard to make statistics fun, but FOLLOWING
>> RULES IS NEVER
>> > FUN. Not in math, not in games, nowhere.
>> In math and in games, following rules isn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard A. Beldin, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The question is: If you don't teach by rules, what will you use?
Teach the concepts and reasons. If you teach the rules, these
become much harder to learn. Statistics is not a religion,
where performing the sa
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Frick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I happened to have a vehement and probably radical opinion on this.
>One of my sayings: "Ironically, our educational system is ideally suited
>to teaching computers and ill-suited to teaching human beings." If you
>are goi
