Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-02 Thread vrendeler
Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: Bickel Doksum Casella Berger Cox Hinkley Or is there some other book that you prefer? This question has been posted before, but nobody responded, so I'm asking again. Surely someone out there has an opinion! Sent via

comparing Website effort

2000-11-02 Thread Marco Pöhler
Hi, I'll try to compare the effort of many different Websites in view of banner effectiveness (clicks2visitors) and conversion rate (visitors2customers). I think i had to group the Websites by branches to reach someting that is compareable. First: I need a division of branches, that is in the

Re: Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-02 Thread geeker
In article 8tr56a$gci$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: Bickel Doksum This was the text for my first course in statistics (in 1977-8!). I'd say it's OK, but far from perfect. It has a distinctly theoretical,

Re: Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-02 Thread Michael Granaas
A lot depends on who your audience is and what your goals are. Could you elaborate? Michael On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: Bickel Doksum Casella Berger Cox Hinkley Or is there some other book that you

Re: Error in polls, Part 2

2000-11-02 Thread Gene Gallagher
A URL for the 1 Nov Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/Poll/releases/pr001101c.asp This poll has Bush over Gore 48% to 43% with margin of error of 2%. Wolfgang's post and the thread below indicates that this +/- 2% is the 95% CI, which makes sense given the sample size. With the 2% 95% CI, we

ANOVA with dichotomous dependent variable

2000-11-02 Thread Gerhard Luecke
Can anyone name some references where the problem of using a DICHOTOMOUS variable as a DEPENDENT variable in an ANOVA is discussed? Many thanks in advance, Gerhard Luecke = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and

Re: Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-02 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 8tr56a$gci$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: Bickel Doksum Casella Berger Cox Hinkley Or is there some other book that you prefer? This question has been posted before, but nobody responded, so I'm

Re: replication of significant results

2000-11-02 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thom Baguley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl L. Wuensch wrote: misunderstanding of the logic of hypothesis testing. Sigh. Maybe Frank Schmidt is correct when he suggests that we abandon tests of significance (Schmidt, F. L. (1996). Statistical significance

Re: ANOVA with dichotomous dependent variable

2000-11-02 Thread Paul Thompson
Gerhard Luecke wrote: Can anyone name some references where the problem of using a DICHOTOMOUS variable as a DEPENDENT variable in an ANOVA is discussed? Many thanks in advance, Gerhard Luecke Such analyses may be done using either logistic regression methods or generalized estimating

Re: Stat pkg for old Mac

2000-11-02 Thread Lee Creighton
Hi Richard and all -- I want to make a clarification on this point. JMP 3 was written for the Mac, then ported to windows. JMP 4, on the other hand, is a complete re-write from the ground up of JMP. It is written in C++ (rather than C, like JMP 3). It was considerable trouble and expense to go

Re: November Issue of SecondMoment

2000-11-02 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:32 AM Subject: November Issue of SecondMoment Now I know why data mining is considered so much hog wash. No attempt to deal with uncertainty or to quantify it. Everything is gospel

Re: ANOVA with dichotomous dependent variable

2000-11-02 Thread Glen Barnett
Gerhard Luecke wrote: Can anyone name some references where the problem of using a DICHOTOMOUS variable as a DEPENDENT variable in an ANOVA is discussed? Many thanks in advance, Gerhard Luecke I'd first try logistic regression. If all your variables are categorical, you can look at some

Re: Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-02 Thread Glen Barnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: Bickel Doksum Casella Berger Cox Hinkley Or is there some other book that you prefer? This question has been posted before, but nobody responded, so I'm asking again. Surely someone out