Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, dennis roberts wrote in part: > At 04:00 PM 4/7/00 -0500, Michael Granaas wrote: > > >But whatever form hypothesis testing takes it must first and foremost > >be viewed in the context of the question being asked. < snip > > to ... ask the question of real intere

help plotting 3-way interaction

2000-04-07 Thread Brad
Could someone please direct me to a reference or a URL that has information on decomposing and plotting a 3-way interaction in MRC? I have done this with a 2-way interactions before, but I'm not sure I've got it right when I extrapolate to a 3-way interaction. By "decompose", I mean to factor one

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2000-04-07 Thread Navtam Gosai
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What to do about "simple" techniques

2000-04-07 Thread Chris Mecklin
Dear all, I am interested in what others are doing when faced with techniques that appear in standard textbooks that are "simpler" (either computationally and/or conceptually) than better (but more difficult) techniques. My concern is when the "superior" techniques is either inaccessible to the

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Chris Mecklin
Dear all, I'd like to throw my 2 cents in on the hypothesis testing thread, even though I'm an inexperienced grad student who has only taught stats for a few semesters. First, I'd definitely agree with those who have indicated that if we abandoned conventional hypothesis testing (as we see it in

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread dennis roberts
At 04:00 PM 4/7/00 -0500, Michael Granaas wrote: >But whatever form hypothesis testing takes it must first and formost be >viewed in the context of the question being asked. this seems to be the key to REinventing ourselves ... make sure the focus is on the question ... AND, to REshape the que

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Michael Granaas
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, dennis roberts wrote: > i was not suggesting taking away from our arsenal of tricks ... but, since > i was one of those old guys too ... i am wondering if we were mostly lead > astray ...? I've been wondering a lot about this myself lately. Chow (1988) and Meehl (1978) hav

Re: norm pdf

2000-04-07 Thread Ken
Cool! There IS still a place in this world for Minitab Character Graphs. :) dennis roberts wrote: > how come when you do a pdf on a unit norm distribution and one say, where > mean is 100 and sd = 15 ... you get different pdf values along the Y > axis??? is it just because the lenght of the cont

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Robert Dawson
Richard Barton wrote: > Everybody? Not me. I'd teach everything in terms of effect sizes. Then we get to argue over what are large/small effect sizes. Rick: Yes, I like that approach too, partly (and not only) because it is probably the hardest approach to turn into a ritual. However:

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <013201bfa09d$6c2be970$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by >> democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ... which has >> essentially dominated statistical work for as long

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by >democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ... which has >essentially dominated statistical work for as long as i can remember >(which,

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, j. williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some of us in the minority would not follow what might be "fashionable." I am >one of those who believe hypothesis testing is still an important and integral >part of statistics. Hypothesis testing is but one tool in the w

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread dennis roberts
i was not suggesting taking away from our arsenal of tricks ... but, since i was one of those old guys too ... i am wondering if we were mostly lead astray ...? the more i work with statistical methods, the less i see any meaningful (at the level of dominance that we see it) applications of hy

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Richard M. Barton
Robert, Everybody? Not me. I'd teach everything in terms of effect sizes. Then we get to argue over what are large/small effect sizes. rick --- You wrote: > let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by > democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ..

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread j. williams
Some of us in the minority would not follow what might be "fashionable." I am one of those who believe hypothesis testing is still an important and integral part of statistics. Hypothesis testing is but one tool in the whole arsenal however. OTH, I'm an old guy who went through graduate scho

Re: comparing variances

2000-04-07 Thread yorgiv
Hello, Thank you very much for all the advice that you have given me. I think the problem that you have perceived from me tells me that I must think again about what I am doing. I have learned very much from this newsgroup. Sincerly, Yorgi V. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Joe Ward
Hi, Dennis-- Yes, "LOT of years!" ago (the 1950's), when I first started into the real applied world, our main job was to PREDICT, PREDICT, PREDICT outcomes. We had some real cost figures to evaluate our predictions. Before the term Bootstrap arrived on the scene, we were Cross-Validating like

Re: comparing variances

2000-04-07 Thread Robert Dawson
Dennis Roberts wrote: > the discussion of comparing variances brings to mind the following ... and > is related to the post i just sent re: hyp testing > > let's assume that we are interested whether there is some difference in > treatment effects ... as measured by means ... our null is the mu1

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Robert Dawson
> let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by > democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ... which has > essentially dominated statistical work for as long as i can remember > (which, er um ... is a LOT of years!) ... is relegated to the 'we USED >

Re: prediction of future individual values with a linear mixed effects model

2000-04-07 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Renaud Lancelot wrote: > I am modelling liveweight growth in sheep. My dataset has many > individuals ( > 1000) but few observations per sheep (1 to 6, > mean ~ 5), limited to early growth (0 - 3 mo), at regular time > intervals (15 d). I have fitted a linear mixed effects

Inference and Asymptotics: Ascona 2000

2000-04-07 Thread Diego Kuonen
- Apologies for cross-postings. - This is about a workshop on inference and asymptotics, to be held from 9-14 July 2000 at Ascona in the Italian- speaking part of Switzerland. See http://statwww.epfl.ch/ascona2000/ The meeting is org

Re: comparing variances

2000-04-07 Thread dennis roberts
the discussion of comparing variances brings to mind the following ... and is related to the post i just sent re: hyp testing let's assume that we are interested whether there is some difference in treatment effects ... as measured by means ... our null is the mu1 = mu2 now, we use the 'standa

hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread dennis roberts
let's say that today ... we as the statistical community decided, by democratic vote, that the concept of 'hypothesis testing' ... which has essentially dominated statistical work for as long as i can remember (which, er um ... is a LOT of years!) ... is relegated to the 'we USED to do th

Re: comparing variances

2000-04-07 Thread William B. Ware
On 6 Apr 2000, Radford Neal wrote: > I think you cannot expect to receive useful advise regarding whatever > your REAL problem is if you don't tell us what the data actually is > about, and what your purpose in looking at it is. Good point... I've just started looking at this thread. Has it eve

prediction of future individual values with a linear mixed effects model

2000-04-07 Thread Renaud Lancelot
Dear all, I am modelling liveweight growth in sheep. My dataset has many individuals ( > 1000) but few observations per sheep (1 to 6, mean ~ 5), limited to early growth (0 - 3 mo), at regular time intervals (15 d). I have fitted a linear mixed effects model (Y = XB + ZU + E), where growth was mo