New Statistics Website

2000-06-20 Thread secondmoment
I am hoping to get some feedback regarding an applied statistics and analytics website I created to bring together acedemics and industry analysts. It is designed to showcase academic research and create discussion in the field of applied statistics and to provide links to other useful statistics

Re: Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread Alan McLean
One might also ask what is meant by the 'population escape rate' in this context. Is the data not population data? Alan Dale Berger wrote: > > Hi Don et al., > > If we observe one escape out of 1250 inmates, why can't we reliably rule out > zero as the population escape rate? The normal appro

Re: Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread Dale Berger
Hi Don et al., If we observe one escape out of 1250 inmates, why can't we reliably rule out zero as the population escape rate? The normal approximation to the binomial may not be appropriate here. Dale Berger Professor and Dean, Psychology Claremont Graduate University 123 East Eighth Street C

Re: power analysis for the log-rank test to prove equivalence

2000-06-20 Thread Jerry Hintze
> Does anybody know how to calculate the sample size needed to prove > EQUIVALENCE, not difference of two treatments concerning survival data > (log-rank test, cox regression). > > Thanks Bernd > If you were willing to use proportions or means, you could use our program PASS (at www.ncss.com) to s

time series assumptions

2000-06-20 Thread Barbara Lehman
I am attempting to help a friend analyze interrupted time series data, and am hoping someone on the list might have advice about how to proceed. The data, which are police reports of hate crimes over a three year period, seem less than ideal. The series is organized into weekly frequency data (a

Re: Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread Donald Burrill
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I "inherited" the reporting system for our escapes and have some > questions about how data has been reported in the past. > > First, I have a question about the formula used to calculate escape > rates which is (escapes)/(average daily popu

Re: Comments about my syllabus

2000-06-20 Thread Warren
It does seem ambitious for any survey course. And why not teach something useful...do you prohibit them from having a calculator? What's the difference in a calculator and a computer? I remember learning how to take square roots, approximately...do you require them to do that? An awful waste of

Re: how to calculate the variance of x/y

2000-06-20 Thread bill knight
Robert Dawson wrote: > > dz asked: > > Hi, anybody knows how to caculate the variance of x/y? where x and y are > two > > independent variables with normal dis n(a1,b1) and > > n(a2,b2) respectively. > > Yes. And no. > > Sitting down? > > Trick question! It is always undefined, as

Re: differences between groups/treatments ?

2000-06-20 Thread Donald Burrill
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Rich Ulrich wrote: > On 19 Jun 2000 18:01:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dónal Murtagh) wrote: > > < ... > > > Firstly, thank you for your comments. Am I right in saying that the two > > (equivalent) options I have are: > > These are not quite equivalent options since the f

Re: differences between groups/treatments ?

2000-06-20 Thread Donald Burrill
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Murtagh wrote: > Firstly, thank you for your comments. Am I right in saying that the two > (equivalent) options I have are: > > 1.ANOVA > > Yijk = mew + Ai + Bj + ABij + Eijk > > Ai: a fixed factor representing the treatments (2 levels) > Bj: a fixed factor represe

Re: Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread dennis roberts
>Reword these as per 10,000? That way you have "whole people" while >preserving the differences among the rates. this might ease the problem but, does not eliminate it (though makes more sense than a base of 100) ... for, what if the value comes out to be ... .04423? i guess it depends on how ma

Re: Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread Jill Binker
At 12:55 PM -0400 6/20/00, dennis roberts wrote: >At 11:10 AM 6/20/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Then I also have a rule of thumb question. At what point is a rate >>considered unreliable or a useless piece of information? My example again >>and remember that it uses the "formula" I first

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Re: Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread dennis roberts
At 11:10 AM 6/20/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Then I also have a rule of thumb question. At what point is a rate >considered unreliable or a useless piece of information? My example again >and remember that it uses the "formula" I first presented above. The >previous reports show rates o

Rates and proportions

2000-06-20 Thread fran . ferrari
Hello, I "inherited" the reporting system for our escapes and have some questions about how data has been reported in the past. First, I have a question about the formula used to calculate escape rates which is (escapes)/(average daily population - escapes). Then this is reported as a rate per 1

How Long do you have to Live (fwd)

2000-06-20 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Zina Taran - Just in case you've got too much time: http://life-expectancy.longtolive.com/Life-Expectancy.asp What caught my eye was the concluding statement, "Statistically you should die on ". - End of forwarded message from Zina Taran - I went th

Re: differences between groups/treatments ?

2000-06-20 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 19 Jun 2000 18:01:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dónal Murtagh) wrote: < ... > > Firstly, thank you for your comments. Am I right in saying that the two > (equivalent) options I have are: These are not quite equivalent options since the first one really stinks -- If you are considering draw

How Long do you have to Live

2000-06-20 Thread Zina Taran
Just in case you've got too much time: http://life-expectancy.longtolive.com/Life-Expectancy.asp What caught my eye was the concluding statement, "Statistically you should die on ". How Long do you have to Live.url