big site update and your invited congradulations! www.lukefictitious.f9.co.uk

2000-11-24 Thread Your Friend.
congradulations you've been invited to check out luke's improved site at www.lukefictitious.f9.co.uk see the new feature nearing the end of book one = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the pr

EdStat: Factoring tetrachoric matrix in SAS

2000-11-24 Thread Alex Yu
I ran a SAS macro and output a tetrachoric correlation matrix of 236 variables successfully. However, when I ran a factor analsyis using the matrix as the infile, it fails. Although I have specified 'corr' for _type_, SAS said that: "Data set WORK.MATRIX2 has _TYPE_ and _NAME_ variables but is

Re: Re Li0N_iN_0iL@NoSpam.Com (Li0N_iN_0iL)

2000-11-24 Thread RCKnodt
In a message dated 11/24/00 12:13:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Robert C. Knodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It might be more polite to show your name >and/or address to identify yourself >when sending comments to the mailing list. It might and/or might not be

Re: stat question

2000-11-24 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >the problem with herman's pronouncement is mainly ... it is all or nothing .. >the main purpose of any intro course is to spark some interest in some >students ... >how else would

Re: stat question

2000-11-24 Thread Li0N_iN_0iL
Dennis Roberts wrote about Herman's pronouncement: >he takes the position that no one can benefit from >any intro stat courses ... which we know is a silly >position to take It's worse than silly: it's false. = Instructions for jo

Re Li0N_iN_0iL@NoSpam.Com (Li0N_iN_0iL)

2000-11-24 Thread Li0N_iN_0iL
Robert C. Knodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It might be more polite to show your name >and/or address to identify yourself >when sending comments to the mailing list. It might and/or might not be, and that was once my practice; but after receiving more than enough spam and unwelcome e-mail fo

Re: math. symbols

2000-11-24 Thread Roger D Metcalf DDS
> - Forwarded message from Paul W. Jeffries - > > What software would you recommend for writing documents that contain > mathematical symbols? Microsoft Word does not have all the symbols I > need. > > - End of forwarded message from Paul W. Jeffries - > Scientific Word and

Re: stat question

2000-11-24 Thread dennis roberts
the problem with herman's pronouncement is mainly ... it is all or nothing now, in his case, instead of saying that he thinks that students at the undergraduate level would be BETTER off taking some introductory course in probability ... RATHER than what he perceives as being the only thing taugh

Re: stat question

2000-11-24 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <01c055d0$5408df40$6f38de9e@daheiser>, David Heiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- Original Message - >From: Herman Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 4:55 PM >Subject: Re: stat question >> >Herman Rubin wrote: >> >>anyon

Re: stat question

2000-11-24 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 07:55 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote: >>In article <8vk5h2$516l9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>Li0N_iN_0iL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Herman Rubin wrote: anyone wanting to learn good statistics should not even >>

I'm Looking for a good OMR system

2000-11-24 Thread S³awomir Nowakowski
Hello We are looking for a good OMR system. Could you give us some offer or name o f some company dealing with this system. Slawek Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about

logistic regression/error in binary vatiable

2000-11-24 Thread Konrad Halupka
I have several variables (X1, X2...) measuring various traits of individuals and one variable (Y) which is binary (survived/did not survive). I would like to check if the variation in survival can be explained with Xi variables. It looks like a typical logistic regression problem. However it bot