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2000-10-31 Thread Susan R Murray
About 30 people have listed this newsgroup as the reason they came to the test and yet I have had not one reply on where/ how I can get help with my problem ... I'm going to go ask the people in al.po-mo ... Oh well ... Susan Excerpts from netnews.sci.stat.math: 27-Oct-100 creative statistics

2 factor ANOVA with empty cells

2000-10-31 Thread Jeff E. Houlahan
Is it ever appropriate to do a 2-factor unreplicated ANOVA with empty cells if you aren't sure there is no interaction between the factors? If so, when and if not, are there any reasonable alternatives? Thanks. Jeff Houlahan =

Re: What's type III?

2000-10-31 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
Although I do not have the source, I have heard Type III error described as rejecting the null and concluding that there is an effect in one direction, when, in fact, the effect is, in the population, in the opposite direction. Assuming that a nondirectional test was employed, the null is false, t

Sample Size Question

2000-10-31 Thread Brian Vuong
Dear stat. subscribers: I work for a bank. I have a data set with 2,600,000 observations. I would like to determine an auditing sample size that is statistically significant within 1% error. If I can determine the sample size I need, I will use SAS to pull out the sample size randomly, so I c

Re: What's type III?

2000-10-31 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 31 Oct 2000 11:24:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Werner W. Wittmann) wrote: > > Herman and N.N., > > type III error means measuring the wrong construct or something > > nonexistent. > > In my German book about evaluation research(1985) I cited the > > following: > > "Statistician worry

RE: What's type III?

2000-10-31 Thread Werner W. Wittmann
> Herman and N.N., > type III error means measuring the wrong construct or something > nonexistent.In my German book about evaluation research(1985) I cited the > following: > "Statistician worry about two types of errors..: > Type I error is rejecting a hypothesis when it should be accepted

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2000-10-31 Thread dennis roberts
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RE: How do we pronounce Kolmogorov?

2000-10-31 Thread Dennis W. Leitner
There has been a lot of discussion about where the accent goes (before or after the syllable), but I don't remember seeing the answer to subject of this thread. I was once discussing relative merits of tennis players with a young man from Russia. He said that we Americans accent the wrong syllab

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-31 Thread Tony T. Warnock
The change in placement of accent marks is and example of change for change's sake. The old style will be around for many years. It's in every dictionary that I currently own (about 5 different and an online version.) The Mirriam Webster Second Edition dropped 400,000 entries going to the Third E

Re: Cross-correlation of two random signals gives bimodal distribution

2000-10-31 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:54:12 -0800, "G. Anthony Reina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem concerning cross-correlation and was hoping someone > could help explain. > > Here's what I'm doing: > > I create two random signals (each 100 points from gaussian distribution > from -1 to

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-31 Thread Jerry Dallal
Rich Ulrich wrote: > I posted a question on alt.usage.english, > from a.u.e. > > so that stress marks were > most often placed after the vowels (as in the OED), > However, in the early 20th century, the IPA (International Phonetics > Association) invented a writing system in

Re: What's type III?

2000-10-31 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <8tl9ir$j9g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kj0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is a type III statistical error? >(I know about types I and II). >Thanks, This is the most common type; doing the wrong problem. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are tho

Assistant Prof. in Statistics Position at Miami University

2000-10-31 Thread John Bailer
October 31, 2000 Dear colleague: Enclosed is a description of a tenure-track position in statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Miami University. As you may know, Miami University is a state-supported university with 16,000 students that is located in southwest Ohio ap