Re: t-test normality assumption

all of this discussion re: t test and normality and when it makes a difference and when it does not ... plus all the other assumptions made in all kinds of tests with similar sometimes/sometimes not problems ... just reinforces the fact that we need to be real skeptical about p values

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Re: summarizing p-values

Herman Rubin wrote: I will address this point first, as it is equally valid no matter what one's view of statistical inference happens to be. The point is that the probability of publication depends on the p-value. If you have 100 studies published, and the distribution of p-values is

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

In sci.stat.edu Petr Kuzmic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Mark Glickman wrote: : : The Boston Univ Department of Mathematics and Statistics is : seeking a part-time temporary lecturer to teach an : introductory statistics class in the Fall. Responsibilities : include lecturing three times per

Re: pay scale

Bob Hayden wrote: - Forwarded message from Petr Kuzmic - $5000 - 25% federal + stat tax = $3750 16 week semester, that's $234/week after taxes How many hours in the week for a University lecturer: 3 hours / week in the classroom 6 hours / week preparing reviewing lecture

Re: need some advise

Carmen, The highlighted numbers are p-values for testing the hypothesis that the means in the same subset (column) directly above are equal (in the statistical sense). The Duncan post-hoc test that SPSS uses is based on Duncan's multiple range proceedure and is explained in most good middle

Re: summarizing p-values

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry Dallal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herman Rubin wrote: I will address this point first, as it is equally valid no matter what one's view of statistical inference happens to be. The point is that the probability of publication depends on the p-value. If you

Re: P( |X1-X2| a)=? when X~N(my,sigma) (URGENT)

Tarjei Knapstad wrote: I recently ran into this problem when assisting my girlfriend with her studies for an exam in basic statistics, but I've been unable to solve it: --snip-- Here's a hint: If X1 and X2 are jointly normally, then: (1) y = X1-X2 is normally distributed; and (2) the

Re: P( |X1-X2| a)=? when X~N(my,sigma) (URGENT)

Tarjei Knapstad wrote: I recently ran into this problem when assisting my girlfriend with her studies for an exam in basic statistics, but I've been unable to solve it: --snip-- Here's a hint: If X1 and X2 are jointly normal, then: (1) y = X1-X2 is normally distributed; and (2) the

Re: P( |X1-X2| a)=? when X~N(my,sigma)

Tarjei Knapstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a random variable X normally distributed with known mean and standard deviation, say, X~N(2, 0.5). If I make two samples from this distribution, how do I find the probability of the absolute difference between these samples being larger than a

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

Petr Kuzmic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Glickman wrote: : 22 hour/week : Indeed it's a half time job (50% appointment, essentially). : So now, $234/week after taxes makes $10.60/hour. Interesting arithmetic... all of our part-time lecturers are efficient enough to spend no more

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

"Gordon D. Pusch" wrote: : 22 hour/week : Indeed it's a half time job (50% appointment, essentially). : So now, $234/week after taxes makes $10.60/hour. Interesting arithmetic... all of our part-time lecturers are efficient enough to spend no more than about 10 hours a week on a

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

In sci.stat.edu Petr Kuzmic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : "Gordon D. Pusch" wrote: : When I was in Grad-school, if I allocated only the the Departmental : ``officially expected'' amount of time to grading the reports for the : Physics Labs I taught, I would have needed to grade them at the rate of

part-time pay

Part-time lecturers are underpaid everywhere. Let's not all dump on BU who is paying them better than most places do. -- _ | |Robert W. Hayden | | Work: Department of Mathematics / |Plymouth State College MSC#29 | |

Re: likelihood

- Original Message - From: Gökhan BakIr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: likelihood Hi ! Please dont flame me for this question if its too foolish, but is there a difference between a likelihood and a probability ? thanks