Re: Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-03 Thread vrendeler
In article <8trqbp$eg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <8tr56a$gci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: [snip] > > Depends on your purpose? Textbook for an introductory course? Self- > s

Re: Error in polls, Part 2

2000-11-03 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:02:48 GMT, Gene Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Which book do you recommend?

2000-11-03 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <8tucis$5lk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <8trqbp$eg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In article <8tr56a$gci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: [snip]

distribution of daily low/high

2000-11-03 Thread Vincent Granville
The problem is to find the (parametric?) distribution of the ratio low/high in connection with Brownian motions. The application I have in mind is daily low/high or 52-week low/high for any particular stock price. I would like to add a result on this subject in my section "theorems" on my web sit

Position opening in experimental psychology (quant/stat)

2000-11-03 Thread Richard Lehman
Please call this to the attention of any interested individuals. Faculty position in experimental psychology with an emphasis on experimental design and statistics. Candidate must have experience teaching introductory and advanced quantitative techniques through multivariate regression and ANOVA.

Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread Richard Lehman
A colleague sent me this note. >A statistics question. > >Temperatures taken from different portions of a stream: > >Portion 1 >16.9 >17 >15.8 >17.1 >18.7 >18 > >mean = 17.25 >variance = 0.995 > >Portion 2 >18.3 >18.5 > >mean = 18.4 >variance = 0.02 > >Do these portions have different temperatur

Re: Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread David C. Howell
I think that your colleague made at least one error here. The unpooled t is not necessarily more conservative. If it had been the group with the smaller variance (.02) that had the larger sample sizes, the resulting t would have been considerably larger. The important thing is whether the large va

Re: Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Richard Lehman wrote: > > A colleague sent me this note. > > >A statistics question. > > > >Temperatures taken from different portions of a stream: > > > >Portion 1 > >16.9 > >17 > >15.8 > >17.1 > >18.7 > >18 > > > >mean = 17.25 > >variance = 0.995 > > > >Portion 2 > >18.3 > >18.5 > > > >mean

Re: Error in polls, Part 2

2000-11-03 Thread Reg Jordan
Each state is not necessarily winner-take-all. Several states permit their electoral votes to be split. I believe either Kansas or Nebraska is one of those states. reg - Original Message - From: "Rich Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:5

Electoral College

2000-11-03 Thread Reg Jordan
Here is some additional info from the MSNBC website. Thought you might be interested:   "   Q. How are each state’s electoral votes allocated to presidential candidates?              A. In 48 states, and in the District of Columbia, it is a winner-take-all system: The winner of the popul

Re: Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread Paul Bernhardt
Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote on 11/3/00 2:16 PM: >Richard Lehman wrote: >> >> A colleague sent me this note. >> >> >A statistics question. >> > >> >Temperatures taken from different portions of a stream: >> > >> >Portion 1 >> >16.9 >> >17 >> >15.8 >> >17.1 >> >18.7 >> >18 >> > >> >mean = 17.25

Re: Error in polls, Part 2

2000-11-03 Thread Radford Neal
>> I may not be the only one confused on what these confidence intervals >> mean. In the above press release, the Gallup organization provides this >> description of what their +/- 2% means: >> >> "For results based on the total sample of likely voters, one can say >> with 95% confidence that th

Re: Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread dennis roberts
when ns are = and var are the same ... or, when ns are = and var are NOT the same ... or, when ns are NOT = but var are the same ... the stan error for difference formulas for pooled and non pooled are the same ... when ns are NOT = and var are NOT = ...the two standard errors are different ... an

Quality, Statistics & Reliability Section of INFORMS

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel William Apley
Dear Colleagues: If you are involved in Quality Assurance or Reliability activities, then please consider joining the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) section of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). INFORMS is a 12,000 member society representing pro

Re: Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: Robert J. MacG. Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Richard Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Two t tests > > > Richard Lehman wrote: > > > > A colleague sent me this note. > > > > >A statistics

Re: Error in polls, Part 2

2000-11-03 Thread Gene Gallagher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > "For results based on the total sample of likely voters, one can say > > with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is +/- 2 > > percentage points." > > Those guys are supposed to be professionals, and they should have

Re: ANOVA with dichotomous dependent variable

2000-11-03 Thread Gene Gallagher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerhard Luecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > Check out Ramsey & Schaefer's "The Sta