Re: Minitab Release 12. 60 Copies

2000-10-17 Thread Thom Baguley
Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: dennis roberts wrote: robert ... i disagree ... now, if minitab will reimburse him for NOT selling them ... that is a different story ... but, if they won't AND he has not USED the project ... i see nothing to prevent him from obtaining a return on his

Summary: 120 subjects on 120 occasions

2000-10-17 Thread Dr. Hans-Christian Waldmann
Dear List(s), Last week I have posted a request for help pertaining to the issue of how to analyse repeated measurement data with some rather unusual dimensions (N=120 subjects giving a time series with T=120 occassions each). To my pleasure, there have been as much as 12 replies which are

Re: Minitab Release 12. 60 Copies

2000-10-17 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Thom Baguley wrote: Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: dennis roberts wrote: robert ... i disagree ... now, if minitab will reimburse him for NOT selling them ... that is a different story ... but, if they won't AND he has not USED the project ... i see nothing to prevent him from

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-17 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris: That's not what Jerry means. What he's saying is that if your sample size is large enough, a difference may be statistically significant (a term which has a very precise meaning, especially to the Apostles of the

Re: Draft USEI Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum Guidelines

2000-10-17 Thread George W. Cobb
Gale Bryce is right in saying that many popele have been involved with the Undergrad Stat Ed Initiative, but I think all of us who have been involved would agree that it has been Gale's energy, vision, flexibility and follow-through that has led the way for the rest of us. George George W.

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-17 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:06 PM 10/16/00 +, Peter Lewycky wrote: It happens all the time in medicine. If I can show a p value 0.05 or less the researchers are delighted. Whenever I can't produce a p of 0.05 or less they start looking for

COX models with time-dependent reg coeff

2000-10-17 Thread hootspa
Anyone have a macro or method of doing this with SAS. Or if someone has the DYNASURV macro that the Univ of Munich used to distribute. -- Ask those who Ask those who .. . Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

Questions: estimators of normal distribution

2000-10-17 Thread Haoli Qian
Hi all. I try to use the ratio between the sample averages of \mu and \sigma to estimate the real ratio between \mu and \sigma. But I want to know whether this estimator in any sense is optimum, and then is this one the best estimator in Mean square estimation error sense? Since the data are

Hypothesis testing

2000-10-17 Thread Alan McLean
Periodically there is a burst of discussion of hypothesis testing on this list, often with quite a lot of verbal pyrotechnics. With the current discussion going on, it seems an appropriate time to comment that a few weeks ago I sent out a call for people interested in presenting papers on

Re: How to be a consultant in statistics ???

2000-10-17 Thread Björn Isberg
I can recommend the book "Bluff your way into Consultancy". While it appears to be a joke at first sight, it in fact describe the reality of how the life of most consultants. As a consultant you will get varied job from computing the percentage of 2 numbers (it can create frustration for a boss

Re: Methodology development: Open vs. Proprietary

2000-10-17 Thread predictr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Most of the stuff being done are hyped-up hacks. They wouldn't dare publish this junk lest someone with some knowledge tear it apart. ... The mathematical/statistical validity of the technology is really secondary at best." If they haven't published their work, how do

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-17 Thread Chris . Chambers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J. MacG. Dawson) wrote: Wrt to your example, it seems that the decision you are making about practical importance is purely subjective. What exactly do you mean by this? Are you saying that _my_ example is purely subjective

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-17 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: Re: questions on hypothesis In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris: That's not what Jerry means. What he's saying is that if your sample size is large enough, a