Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Simon, Steve, PhD wrote: I'm helping out someone taking a Statistics class and her instructor is drawing a distinction between "part correlation" and "partial correlation". I had never heard of the term "part correlation" before. Neither had I until I found myself

Re: Data Mining blooper and Related Subjects

2000-04-26 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 002601bfaf29$cfbaa9a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED], David A. Heiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: T.S. Lim Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:49 AM Subject: Data Mining blooper While hunting for URLs for

Textbook recommendation

2000-04-26 Thread Seymann, Dick
I'm sure this will get as many responses as there are books available, but I'll give it a try anyway. I've been teaching elementary introductory statistics for some 35 years and have always preferred textbooks that develop the theory of inferential statistics by providing a foundation in

Re: Data Mining blooper and Related Subjects

2000-04-26 Thread dennis roberts
At 07:57 AM 4/26/00 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote: It does not surprise me one bit. The typical statistics course teaches statistical methods and pronouncements, with no attempt to achieve understanding. snip of more this is something i happen to agree with herman about ... but, it is a

Text for Transition Course 1/2 POM 1/2 Stats

2000-04-26 Thread Ronny Richardson
I have been ask to design and present a transition course in the summer. The course is one of several for incoming business Masters students who do not have the necessary background in management. The course is a 3-hour course and is expected to cover both statistics and operations management. I

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Paul W. Jeffries
The instructor claims that the part correlation is usually better (more interpretable?) but that SPSS and other software will not compute such a correlation." If you run a multiple regression in SPSS (Analyze --Regression --Linear), click on the Statistics tab; there is an option for Part

Re: Part versus partial correlation

2000-04-26 Thread Daniel J. Nordlund
Steve Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm helping out someone taking a Statistics class and her instructor is drawing a distinction between "part correlation" and "partial correlation". I had never heard of the term "part correlation" before. As best I understand it, If you have three variables,

Re: Text for Transition Course 1/2 POM 1/2 Stats

2000-04-26 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Ronny Richardson wrote: I have been ask to design and present a transition course in the summer. The course is one of several for incoming business Masters students who do not have the necessary background in management. snip, details of the assignment...

truncated Binomial

2000-04-26 Thread mot4201
Hi, Could anybody tell me how to write the density of the binomiale distribution when x=0 is not observed? will the MLE of p different than X-bar in the case of truncated Binomial? How about the variance and the bias of this estimator? Thanx. Mark Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

Re: Data Mining blooper

2000-04-26 Thread Zubin
Can you be more specific on what the misleading statements are? And why you think they are misleading. T.S. Lim Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... While hunting for URLs for KDCentral.com, I encountered several misleading

Is Bootstrapping Appropriate?

2000-04-26 Thread Greg Heath
Can you help or lead me to the appropriate reference? I have 526 radar measurements evenly sampled over 26.25 sec (i.e., pulse repetition frequency = 20 points per second). mean = 0.0 stdv = 1.2 t0= 1sec (1/e decorrelation time from the autocorrelation function) I want to test

Re: Is Bootstrapping Appropriate?

2000-04-26 Thread Zubin
Yes, I believe your methodology will work. However, you should sample a window of data rather than a single data point when you calculate your re-sampling statistics. I am not sure on the window size, though. zubin. director marketing analytics bass p.l.c. Greg Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

UJobBank.com = Statistics Instructor

2000-04-26 Thread UJobBank.com
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