[Q : Test bivariate normal distribution?]

2000-01-19 Thread D.W. Ryu
Dear Members fo News Group, I always appreciate that I could have received your help. As I know, I can apply Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test to univariate sample. But, I don't know which method can be applied to multivariate samples, especially, when I got the samples assumed to be

Fellowship

2000-01-19 Thread srmillis
FELLOWSHIPS IN REHABILITATION OUTCOMES RESEARCH. The UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research Education Corp., announce a 1-2 year advanced research training program for professionals

Student Awards for STATISTICS AND HEALTH CONFERENCE

2000-01-19 Thread Biostat Research Group
The Biostatistics Research Group of the University of Alberta is is pleased to announce that there will be several travel supplements awarded to students presenting at the Statistics in Health Conference in Edmonton, June 11-13, 2000. These student awards are funded thru the Institute of

statistical event definition?

2000-01-19 Thread Muriel Strand
i gather that a collection of events which is analyzed with statistics must have sufficient similarity (between each event) for the analysis to be accurate/precise. how similar is sufficient? can anyone recommend refs (preferably books) that discuss this issue, and provide guidelines for

Re: FACTOR ANALYSIS

2000-01-19 Thread lthayer
If these factors were length measured in feet and in yards, would it make sense to have both in the same model. No If these factors were measure of ability like IQ, IQ test 1 and IQ test 2, then the question depends on how the two test are related. If they are highly correlated, drop one. If

Interrater reliability

2000-01-19 Thread Allen E Cornelius
Stat folks, I have an interrater reliability dilemma. We are examining a 3-item scale (each item scored 1 to 5) used to rate compliance behavior of patients. Two separate raters have used the scale to rate patients' behavior, and we now want to calculate the interrater agreement for

FACTOR ANALYSIS 2

2000-01-19 Thread haytham siala
When I perform a factor analysis on the items of a questionnaire should I include items that make up the Dependent Variables (DVs) as well as the Independent Variables (IVs) in the analysis or should I perform two separate factor analysis, one on the items making up the Dependent Variables and

FACTOR ANALYSIS

2000-01-19 Thread haytham siala
When I perform a factor analysis on the items of a questionnaire should I include items that make up the Dependent Variables (DVs) as well as the Independent Variables (IVs) in the analysis or should I perform two separate factor analysis, one on the items making up the Dependent Variables and

RE: Interrater reliability

2000-01-19 Thread Peter . Chen
Allen, You might refer to this paper. Burry-Stock, J. A., Shaw, D. G., Laurie, C., Chissom, B. S. (1996). Rater agreement indexes for performance assessment. Educational Psychological Measurement, 56, 251-262. Peter Chen -Original Message- From: Allen E

Factor Analysis 3

2000-01-19 Thread haytham siala
Hi, I am sorry that I am sending a lot of questions related to this subject and here is another question: If some dissimilar iets load on a common factor (the factor does not seem to make sense since it consists of some related and some completely unrrelated items), should I ignore that factor

Sample Size for an Audit

2000-01-19 Thread lenin_vizcaino
We are going to do a quality system audit (like ISO 9000). How do I choose the sample size for a particular group of people? Let's say that there are 20 supervisors and I will audit their knowledge of SPC, how many should I choose for the audit? Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before

Re: Skewed Data Problem

2000-01-19 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 19 Jan 2000 11:18:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steinberg) wrote: snip ... . Most of the responses are zeros and ones. Square root and log transforms have very little effect on the right skew. (I added 1 to each score and took the log to avoid zeros.) The regression (output below)

Re: statistical event definition?

2000-01-19 Thread Richard A. Beldin
Well, we wouldn't try to analyze apples and autos in the same data set. :-) On the other hand, the similarity is sort of like what one requires for an efficient tabular data base. Whatever the sample space of events is, it should consist of events that we can think about together comfortably. If

Re: Sample Size for an Audit

2000-01-19 Thread chendrix8685
In any situation of this sort, the amount of data you need is related to the amount of variation you expect to find in the data... and is also related to "how close do you want your answer to be to the truth" and also with what probablity do you want to be that close to the truth. By truth I