Re: teaching software for stats/maths

Hi All Thanks for the many suggestions of urls, books etc. for teaching software. I will check out all your ideas, and hopefully post a summary to the group once I've sorted through things. Thanks again. -- Andrew McLachlan, PhD Student. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ecology & Entomology Group, P

RE: Simulating multivar. Weibull

Francis, You may want to check out the book Multivariate Statistical Simulation by Mark Johnson (1987; publisher is Wiley). I've used this source in the past to help generate various multivariate distributions. I don't have the book handy so I don't recall if the Weibull is discussed. Chris

introstat-l

given that is beginning fall semester at penn state (whatever happened to starting after labo(U)r day?) , this is just a reminder about ... i run a list called introstat-l (don burrill and others have been very helpful contributors) ... that has been operational since last february ... that is

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

It is a basic priciple of econ: Tax that which you want less of. On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: > > > >> > > >> The Boston Univ Department of Mathematics and Statistics is > > >> seeking a part-time temporary lecturer to teach an > > >> introductory statistics class in th

tails and tests

in some cases ... chi square test statistics require using ONLY 1 tail ... of the relevant chi square distribution ... but some cases require using a two tailed approach ... same can be said of F test statistics ... can we say that about t test statistics? ( i am not talking the case where th

Simulating multivar. Weibull

Hi, is there anybode out there who knows how to generate a sample from a multivariate Weibull distrubution? By a multivariate Weibull distribution, I mean the following (X_1,X_2,...,X_m) are a set of m random variables S_X_i(x_i)=exp(-lambda_i*x_i) (marginal survival function for X_i

Re: Student fears (was: Histograms etc.)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 02:22 PM 8/22/00 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote: >>No geographer would take the heights of mountains and >>convert them to a probability scale. >i beg to differ ... for, it is not totally an uninteresting question that >s

Re: night watchman

dennis roberts wrote: > > this crossed my electronic desk ... > === > >How The Government Works Or, from Dr. Seuss' "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?" (a book that should be required reading for anybody involved with bureaucracy of any sort. In particular, the se

night watchman

this crossed my electronic desk ... === >How The Government Works > >Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a >desert. >Congress said someone may steal from it at night; so they created a >night watchman, >GS-4 position and hired a person for

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

> >> > >> The Boston Univ Department of Mathematics and Statistics is > >> seeking a part-time temporary lecturer to teach an > >> introductory statistics class in the Fall. > > > >$5000 - 25% federal + stat tax = $3750 Now they're taxing stats? -Robert Dawson ===