"Neil W. Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:49:09 -0500
> From: "Neil W. Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: NY Times on "statisticians' view" of election
>
> Paul Thompson wrote, speaking of "caustic jerks":
>
> > Herman Rubin wrote:
> > >
> > > You may be making
As a Brit living in America I am not entitled to comment on most of the points
in
this argument, but I would like to say a few things:
a) People in America apparently vote with machines and not just machines,
but machines of a type (card punch) which was being retired when
I started work nearly 2
In sci.stat.edu Herman Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Paul Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>>At this point, I have been shocked at the unprofessional, bias, and cluelessly
>>partisan comments that have been made on this thread. Comments like "Bu
On 16 Nov 2000 17:18:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radford Neal)
wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > There is another definition [ of "Type III error" ] cited a few
> > times which is seemingly technical, "rejecting the null, but in the
> > wrong
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Ronald Bloom wrote:
> Michael Granaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Gore also won consistently among minorities and lower income groups. In
> > those cases the stereotype is dead on.
> >
> > Michael
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> Does this correlate in your view with a higher likel
< re: "illiteracy" of Gore voters based on 10-item vocabulary test >
On 17 Nov 2000 06:50:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William B. Ware)
wrote:
> Should we not be concerned with some measurement issues before we debate
> the evidence? What were the items on the 10-item test? That is, everyone
Greetings!
Try this link to sample programs at SAS:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/sample/samp_lib/qcsampBalanced_Incomplet
e_Block_Design.html
Kevin
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> Hello:
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> Does anyone happen to know of any computer p
I'm doing a Poisson regression analysis to assess the effect of age,
calendar years, and job title on death. The age range is from 18 to 63
years and the calendar 10 years periods extends from 1950 to 1990.
Does anybody have any advice on what criteria I should apply for the
stratification of the
Can anyone tell me if SAS-callable SUDAAN v. 7.5 runs within SAS v. 8?
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Richard Herrell
Division of EpidemiologyNational Center for American
and Biostatistics Indian an
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At this point, I have been shocked at the unprofessional, bias, and cluelessly
>partisan comments that have been made on this thread. Comments like "Bush voters
>being more educated" do not reflect the educated mind, but
Michael Granaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Magill, Brett wrote:
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> Gore also won consistently among minorities and lower income groups. In
> those cases the stereotype is dead on.
>
> Michael
>
Does this correlate in your view with a higher likelihood
of their
>> I'm attempting to compile an online list of the fundamental differences
>> between our field Statistics and Data Mining. Several online references
>> that touch on the topic include
It's very simple. Data Mining is everything they
taught you _not_ do do when you took statistics.
--
--(Signa
Using the data from this site, I did a matrix of scatterplots of the number of votes each candidate received versus each of the other candidates. Looks to me like Palm Beach county always shows up as an outlier for any scatterplot involving Buchanan, McReynolds, or Phillips. All were on the right
I did not see the original posting, but I guess it asks about
S-Stress. This is the loss function used in ALSCAL and other
programs that minimize squared deviations between dissimilarities
and squared distances. Details are in any MDS book, for instance
Cox & Cox, Multidimensional Scaling, Chapma
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Here is a link to articles on the "Palm Beach Irregularities" --
butterfly ballot, Buchanan votes, and related errors.
It points to six other studies, and to raw data for Florida by county
(for 2000 and 1996) presidential races.
http://madison.hss.cmu.edu/
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Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECT
In today's edition of the NY Times was this article on the accuracy of
machine vs. hand counts as described by the makers of vote-counting
machines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/17/politics/17MACH.html
In summary, under ideal conditions the machines can be up to
99.99% accurate. Ideal conditio
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Magill, Brett wrote:
> >It has created controversy, as witnessed by the replies it has
> >generated, therefore it is controversial.
>
>
> I am not sure why the results that were presented need to be terribly
> controversial. Democratic supporters tend to be minority, older
Hi,
CycDesigN is a good package for computer generation of BIBD. It cost
something but I think you can order a free demo.
Take a look at this Web site.
http://www.ffp.csiro.au/tigr/software/cycdesign/cycdes.htm
Isabelle
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>Hello:
>
>It has created controversy, as witnessed by the replies it has
>generated, therefore it is controversial.
I am not sure why the results that were presented need to be terribly
controversial. Democratic supporters tend to be minority, older, poorer,
and less educated than their republican count
Should we not be concerned with some measurement issues before we debate
the evidence? What were the items on the 10-item test? That is, everyone
seems to be jumping the gun... doesn't anyone care about validity anymore?
:(
WBW
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Hello:
Does anyone happen to know of any computer programs or algorithms that can
simulate the data patterns of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD)? I'm
trying to test the robustness of some model. I found a number of articles
and books describing BIBD but didn't have any luck finding any
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> > > NUMBER WORDS CORRECT IN VOCABULARY TEST
> > > POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION Mean N Std Dev Grouped Median Std.
> Error of Mean
> > > STRONG DEMOCRAT 5.83 263 2.22 5.81
> .14
> > > NOT STR DEMOCRAT 6.02
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Hi,
my opinion is that datamining is just a marketing name, because datamining
techniques are a part of statistics. May be an exception t
In sci.stat.edu Ronald Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So far, NOT ONE person here has responded to my
> point that the likelihood of getting into a tangle
> of some sort with a machine or mechanical procedure
> of some kind does not necessarily have anything
> to do with one's level of literac
Thanks for all e-Mails, and Re's in the newsgroup. You helped me very
much - My problem is solved :-)
Greetings from Leipzig/Germany
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> On 11/16/00, "Somebody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> >I wish to study 'streaks' - ie. periods of deviation from expected
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> >based upon large samples.
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> >Could someone
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