Re: homogeneity of variances

2000-05-15 Thread Thom Baguley
Gary McClelland wrote: Lots of excellent advice. I would add that plots also have the advantage of suggesting a possible solution to any serious violation. For example variance about the regression line increasing with X tends would lead me first to look at transformations such as the log or

Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Granaas
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Rich Ulrich wrote: snip Or, there are bad news reports, that don't really say what the study said. more snipping So: Here is another aspect of error -- what is reported in a journal, as opposed to what is claimed in a newspaper. The misinterpretation of

Re: which calculator for statistics?

2000-05-15 Thread Warren
Stefanie, Donald Macnaughton gives some good advice. I have a Sharp calculator that cost about $15 US. It's usually all I ever need. In the past, I've bought some expensive calculators and have been terribly dissapointed. IMHO, they aren't useful beyond an elementary statistics class. Access

RE: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread dennis roberts
At 10:30 AM 5/15/00 -0500, Simon, Steve, PhD wrote: There have been a lot of interesting comments in this thread. Let me just add my two cents. Anyway, what I tell them is that nine times out of ten, the mistake was not in how the data was analyzed, but in how it was collected. After all, if you

FW: Question: References for run charts.

2000-05-15 Thread Eric Scharin
I am resending the below question, since I think the first didn't make it through I never received a response. -Original Message- From: Eric Scharin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:18 AM To: Edstat Subject: Question: References for run charts. All - I'm

FW: Multiple Comparisons of Variances

2000-05-15 Thread Eric Scharin
I am resending the below question, since I think the first didn't make it through I never received a response. -Original Message- From: Eric Scharin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 3:05 PM To: Edstat-L Subject: Multiple Comparisons of Variances All - I am

Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 15 May 2000 08:58:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: ... "Here's a draft of what I have written." (review of article for Steve's Web site). On-line reference given for article. Thornley, Ben, and Adams, Clive "Content and quality of 2000 controlled trials in

to frame or not frame

2000-05-15 Thread dennis roberts
for a long time, i have had a main web site at: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm but, in the past week or so, i have 'framed' it at: http://roberts.edpsu.edu/users/droberts/drframe.htm this has been first of all an attempt on my part to learn a bit about frames ... but,

Re: I need help with statistical test

2000-05-15 Thread Yura Koblents-Mishke
Rich Ulrich wrote: [snip] The two guys who won a Nobel in economics (for figuring out the price of Discounting, I think) needed a billion-dollar bailout of their company. Apparently the way to stay rich is to have the government take up the slack. (There's one traditional

Re: Benford's law and simulation

2000-05-15 Thread P.G.Hamer
DIAMOND Mark R wrote: Background: Theodore Hill showed, in a paper published in Statistical Science 1995, that if sequences of random variables $\{X\sb n\}$ are selected at random in a scale (base) unbiased way, then the mantissa distributions of the combined sample will converge to