considering to study PhD

2000-11-28 Thread christopher
Hi, I am writing here in order to seek advice. I am working as a statistical analyst. I'm a Hong Kong citizen and want to pursue a PhD. Somebody told me that studying in UK take only 3 years since I have already got a MPhil, is it the case? I ask this question because studying in USA may take 5 ye

Re: EdStat: Factoring tetrachoric matrix in SAS

2000-11-28 Thread Daniel J. Nordlund
> >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

mathematical artwork

2000-11-28 Thread Vincent Granville
Interesting mathematical creations. They are not fractals. It's produced with pretty simple functions, and does not require recursive computations. Actually, some of these objects are very similar to fractals - but again do not involve recursive formulas. Some other images are clearly not fractals

JOB: Bioinformatics postdoc at Newcastle, UK

2000-11-28 Thread D J Wilkinson
Departments of Statistics and Gerontology NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION IN STATISTICAL BIOINFORMATICS A three year post-doctoral position is available to work on an exciting problem at the interface between molecular genomics and biostatistics. The project is to develop st

noise modelling

2000-11-28 Thread Antonio Bardi
hi everybody, I'm antonio bardi, from Italy. I want to learn about noise modelling tecniques, since I have to build a system to analyze ambiental noise in different environments and then re-create them in the lab, to evaluate noise rejection of devices. I have a basic knowledge of signal theory an

Re: recommendations for Markov Chain Monte Carlo book

2000-11-28 Thread P.G.Hamer
Bill Jefferys wrote: > For reversible jump MCMC on models with varying numbers of parameters, I > have found the paper by Dellaportas, Forster and Ntzoufras to be > unusually useful...Dellaportas P., Forster J.J., Ntzoufras I. (2000). On > Bayesian Model and Variable Selection Using MCMC. To app

Re: logistic regression/error in binary variable

2000-11-28 Thread Konrad Halupka
Rich Ulrich wrote: > > On 24 Nov 2000 04:39:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konrad > Halupka) wrote: > > > 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