Re: Ordinal log-linear model

2000-05-25 Thread Zuwei
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --33BF6EF4428603C70C65AF19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Brendan Halpin wrote: > "Buoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is no problem to fit both row-effect and column-effect models an

Can I use rank data to do PCA?

2000-05-25 Thread Wen-Feng Hsiao
Dear listers, I have 43 subjects to rank 11 stimuli. To obtain the underlying variables, principal components, I conduct a PCA (Principal Component Analysis) to the obtained ranked-data. However, a friend of mine told me that using ranking data to do a PCA is quite dangerous, since the scores

Re: Galton

2000-05-25 Thread David A. Heiser
I have been waiting until everybody was through throwing their stuff into the pot.   Dennis refers to Galton's works on inheritance, which is in his book "Natural Inheritance" published in 1889. Galton is credited with starting the idea of correlations and bivariate relationships. The table i

Re: Ordinal log-linear model

2000-05-25 Thread Brendan Halpin
"Buoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is no problem to fit both row-effect and column-effect models and also > uniform association models by SPSS GENLOG procedure. I've got the problem > with Row-and-Column effects model (RC model), I don't know how to fit it > using SPSS. > > The model for

Re: Question order

2000-05-25 Thread dennis roberts
one important thing is to make the response pattern FOR the examinees/Ss as straighforward as possible ... and while the items might be worded in some cases + (i think statistics is useful) or - (i think statistics is a waste of time) ... the response OPTIONS should stay constant so as not to c

Re: Question order

2000-05-25 Thread Michael Granaas
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Grant wrote: > Dear list, > > Does anybody have experience in switching scale questions around? Such has > extremely satisfied, very satisfied, satisfied, dissatisfied, totally > dissatisfied TO totally dissatisfied, dissatisfied, satisfied, very > satisfied, > extremely sat

Ordinal log-linear model

2000-05-25 Thread Buoy
Hello to all. I'm just studying Masako Ishii-Kuntz's "Ordinal log-linear models" (SAGE 1994 no.97). What I wanted to do is to practice fitting by SPSS 8.0 various types of models mentioned in the book. There is no problem to fit both row-effect and column-effect models and also uniform associati

Re: Calculator policy

2000-05-25 Thread dennis roberts
CERTAINLY, if students have been taught to do math using a calculator ... that is, various problems they have been working on were done with calculator assistance, then on tests that demand them to do these kinds of problems, calculators should be allowed. now, on tests ... we have options lik

Re: Calculator policy

2000-05-25 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Sean Clancy - > the other thing i wanted to mention was that ... if you develop some strict > calculator policy ... then you spend too much time at the beginning of a > class ... checking to make sure that each student ONLY has what is allowed ... > Al

Question order

2000-05-25 Thread Grant
Dear list, Does anybody have experience in switching scale questions around? Such has extremely satisfied, very satisfied, satisfied, dissatisfied, totally disatisfied TO totally disatisfied, dissatisfied, satisfied, very satisfied, extremely satisfied. What impact does this have on the results?

Question order

2000-05-25 Thread Grant
Dear list, Does anybody have experience in switching scale questions around? Such has extremely satisfied, very satisfied, satisfied, dissatisfied, totally dissatisfied TO totally dissatisfied, dissatisfied, satisfied, very satisfied, extremely satisfied. What impact does this have on the result