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Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Ken K.
I don't mean to come across as a stat software expert, but I do have a fair amount of experience with a number of packages, especially SAS, StatGraphics, JMP, and MINITAB. I find MINITAB very easy to use. My engineers have also found it to be easier to come back to after a period of non-use than J

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Z. Taran
ny: this is a designed as a really easy question to o test your understanding of different "averages", whichever are discussed in your textbook: mean (that is arithmetic average), median, apparently, midrange, whatever else (see your textbook). but keep in mind that mode is the value that is encou

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
are you saying that the TOTAL question ... lies between the two following lines? At 03:26 PM 1/22/01 -0500, Paige Miller wrote: >ny226 wrote: > > > > Here is the question: === > > > > Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 > > > > (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to adverti

Re: Statistical Question

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
one thought is this ... the easier the question ... the less likely you will find big differences ... so, you might want to concentrate your "efforts" on items more in the midrange of difficulty or harder ones At 03:05 PM 1/22/01 -0500, Lee Creighton wrote: >I have some data to analyze for my

Re: MA MCAS statistical fallacy

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
At 03:28 PM 1/22/01 -0500, Rich Ulrich wrote: >"If Matt scored 121 on an IQ test and Damien scored 123 on the same >test, what is the maximum difference in their IQs?" the comparable item to the real one shown before would be: "if matt was measured ACCURATELY (rounded to the nearest single IQ

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Ken K.
A LOT depends on what kind of analyses you wish to do with the software, the capability level of the user w.r.t. statistics, AND the frequency with which you'll use the software (related to "relearning" how to use the software after an extended absence). I've used a bunch of software in my day. I

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Bill Jefferys
In article <94i9b3$2j2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ken K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #S+ - I hear it is becoming very popular with the stat development bunch. #It is easier to do new neat stuff with S+ than with SAS. It appears to be ##more complicated than some others, but as I said I don't have mu

280 or not

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
At 08:29 PM 1/22/01 +, Gene Gallagher wrote: >The scale is set from 200 to 280, but the maximum score that I've seen >so far is 257 (Boston Latin Math). The DOE only provides these data as >pdf's so it is difficult to find the max. is this a MEAN for a school? could the mean for a school r

Statistical Question

2001-01-22 Thread Lee Creighton
I have some data to analyze for my dissertation, but I'm not sure what method to use to answer the question I am investigating. This may not be the correct newsgroup for it, but there are rumors that some statisticians read it. First, the data set is from the Third International Mathematics and S

Re: MA MCAS statistical fallacy

2001-01-22 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 16 Jan 2001 09:01:18 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J. MacG. Dawson) wrote: > > > Rich Ulrich wrote: > > > Construing the language as precisely as possible, but being careful to > > take into account the full language of the question and the > > multiple-choice answers, what do you think

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Paige Miller
ny226 wrote: > > Here is the question: > > Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 > > (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car > performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in > this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim? I h

Re: A much more basic MCAS fallacy?

2001-01-22 Thread Gene Gallagher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J. MacG. Dawson) wrote: > > > "Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote: > > > > Can anybody possibly believe that a difference of one point in 245.3 can > > possibly be significant? We're talking about schools with a less than a > > maybe sixty fourth

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
You have not given the entire question, but I would guess the motivation behind it goes something like this: You have been shown many measures that might be called an "average"--mean, median, midrange, mode, and so on. You are presented with some artificial data for different makes of cars. Acc

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
> I think SAS and S are not nearly as easy to use. FWIW, I'm convinced SAS *is* as easy as long as you have someone to get you over the initial hurdles. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the probl

Average Deviation

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
how often and under what conditions ... might the AVERAGE deviation (AD) be larger for a set of data that has a SMALLER variance/sd (or reversed)? while not really looking at ADs very often, i have a two set set of data now ... that seems to be like that and, it looks strange Row sortver

new mtb commands listserv

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
well, i guess it is about time that someone spearhead the effort to NOT let the use of minitab commands die ... so, for the time being, that person will be me. today, i have created a new list ... out of the lists.psu.edu system at penn state, called [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATIO

I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread ny226
Here is the question: Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim? -- 1. what is the meaning of "Sub

RE: Problem on the probability of death

2001-01-22 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Apparently, this message did not get through to sci.stat.edu. So I am sending it again. My apologies to anyone who may have seen it twice. Rich Ulrich writes: >The Relative Risk for two groups is also familiar, Risk1/Risk2, but >it becomes intractable to useful statistics (and misleading, to boo

Re: A much more basic MCAS fallacy?

2001-01-22 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
"Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote: > > Can anybody possibly believe that a difference of one point in 245.3 can > possibly be significant? We're talking about schools with a less than a > maybe sixty fourth-graders in them. This just runs against common > sense... Didn't somebody say a week

Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Jan - Could you please give advantages the major stat. systems over others and strength and weakness of them. Eg. could you compare SAS, S (S+), SPSS, Minitab, Statgraphics (plus), Matlab, Maple, Mathematica? - End of forwarded message from Jan - Matlab,

Re: Comparison of statistical systems (software)

2001-01-22 Thread RCKnodt
Please let's not. This will only results in many individuals sending many e-mails to the list. If there happens to be a web page where someone has put this information together, it would be better for anyone interested to look at that webpage. With all the software out there, and everyone see

Multivariate Analysis

2001-01-22 Thread Ali Javey
You can now conduct free multivariate analysis of your data over the web. Currently you can perform PCA, PCR, PLS, SIMCA, and DWT Denoise. http://chemometrics.odu.edu/ Sincerely, Ali Javey = Instructions for joining and leavi

WINSTAT for Excel. A problem - has it happened to you too?

2001-01-22 Thread Sergei Gutnikov
Hi, there! The current demo version of Winstat for Excel (www.winstat.com) does not work for me. Whatever data range is selected, the results are based not on the selected data but on some built-in sample data (it is very easy to see instantly, because the sample data are in German). I tried to c

Comparison of statistical systems (software)

2001-01-22 Thread Jan
There are plenty of various statistical software. Could you please give advantages the major stat. systems over others and strength and weakness of them. Eg. could you compare SAS, S (S+), SPSS, Minitab, Statgraphics (plus), Matlab, Maple, Mathematica? The software is to be used to help study stat

Re: trivariate normality test statistic

2001-01-22 Thread gus gassmann
Wendy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a test statistic for trivariate normality. Does anybody know > such a test-statistic, respectively a book/website where I can find one ? > > Thanks ! > > Wendy If you transform the components to independence (using the Choleski factor of the covariance matr

Re: AW: eigenvalue: origin of term

2001-01-22 Thread J.Russell
Dear All Before we get into nationality bashing reading the following article may be useful. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/HistTopics/Matrices_and_determinants.html After a quick glance my opinion is that the development was international and earlier than suggest