VNS polling confusion on election night

2000-12-22 Thread J. Williams
The following article appeared on CNN.com outlining the VNS exit polling errors. However, VNS believes the networks jumped the gun in predicting Florida at first for Gore, then over to Bush. The future of exit polling in close heats may be questioned more closely prior to network "predictions."

Re: online advanced stats class where?

2000-12-22 Thread J. Williams
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:31:53 GMT, "Sarah C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> I have a PhD in psychology and my school only offered basic coursework >> in statistics. I'd like to take an advanced applied stats class, and >> perhaps a psychometrics class -- preferably online. It's too >> speci

bias

2000-12-22 Thread Debraj
hi, Some data values in a particular experiment performed exhibits unexpected results. Looking into it, I found some explanations for the same. Can I add in some compensatory values/function to eliminate the bias caused in the data instead of redoing the experiment again (with corrections) ? reg

Financial Forecasting Model

2000-12-22 Thread Anna Henson
Happy Holidays Everyone, I am interested to know if there is any good forecasting models for profit and chargeoffs for credit card industry besides the roll rate model. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Anna Henson ==

Job openings

2000-12-22 Thread Peter Chen
Dear Colleagues, My colleagues asked me to distribute the job announcement to whomever may be interested in. Please direct any inquiry pertaining to the position to Dr. Mary Lesch. Happy Holidays, Pete Chen Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health, are hiring one or more junior inv

Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-22 Thread mustela
You probably know about this, but just in case: James & McCulloch (1990) Multivariate analysis in Ecology and systematics ... Ann. Rev. Ecol & Systematics 21:129-166 it´s a very nice paper Santiago Santiago Reig Experimental Surgery and Medicine Lab Gregorio Maranon Hospital, Universidad

OT: psychological test for recruitment in Statistics

2000-12-22 Thread T.S. Lim
My apology for posting an off-topic message. I was wondering if it's a common practice in Statistics to require job applicants to take a psychological test. At the MS/PhD level (in the US), I don't think it's common. However, some companies ask job applicants to take a test like the GRE Quantitat

Check this out- how to get passive residual income

2000-12-22 Thread Todd
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Re: Financial Forecasting Model

2000-12-22 Thread paula
Roll Rate model, as I observe, has long and high popularity among business managers, especially those with MBA background, finance guys, banking executives Some participants in this SAS group may not agree that your original question has much relevance to what this group is mainly about. Roll

using standard curves

2000-12-22 Thread Robert Burrows
Standard curves are prepared in the laboratory by measuring the response of some system at several levels of a factor. A model is fit to the data which is useful for estimating the response as a function of the factor level. However, the standard curve is often used to infer the level of the fact