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Re: MUMPS Programmer Resume (27 years experience)

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel P. B. Smith
This might be of more interest to the readers of the newsgroup comp.lang.mumps In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Volkstorf) wrote: > Charles S. Volkstorf > 29 Concord Ave. # 710 > Cambridge, MA 02138 > 617/547-1459 > > Dear Employer, > > In response to your job not

British Medical Journal on significance tests

2001-01-26 Thread Warren Sarle
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7280/0 -- Warren S. Sarle SAS Institute Inc. The opinions expressed here [EMAIL PROTECTED]SAS Campus Drive are mine and not necessarily (919) 677-8000Cary, NC 27513, USA those of SAS Institute. =

Re: change scores

2001-01-26 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 26 Jan 2001 09:31:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote: > A quibble, and a question (or maybe several, of each), Rich: [ ... ] DB: > > Well, ALL interactions are disordinal, if by "interaction" one means [ snip, on Don's definition, which Don says is tautological ...] DB: > >

Re: Aggregating Data

2001-01-26 Thread dennis roberts
i generated some integer data in minitab ... 10 rows 5 columns then mtb> rmedian c1-c5, c11 ... gets the median of the row puts it in c11 Row C1 C2 C3 C4 C5C11 1 18 10 14 12 14 14 2 14 10 13 17 19 14 3 12

Aggregating Data

2001-01-26 Thread Magill, Brett
Hi, Just a practical problem that I have run into here. I have a large data set where every case (row) represents a person. Each person belongs to a metropolitan area. I want to aggregate some of the individual results into metro area statistics. Should be easy... but alas... The data is sam

Re: regression to the mean

2001-01-26 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 25 Jan 2001 11:55:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote: > but this fails to take into account (amongst other things) ... that the way > rich and poor tend to get increments to their salaries/earnings (as a > general rule) ... is due to some kind of a multiplicative constant ...

Re: change scores

2001-01-26 Thread Donald Burrill
A quibble, and a question (or maybe several, of each), Rich: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Rich Ulrich wrote, inter alia: > By the way, if you have Pre-Post on one measure, you > almost need to plot the points on a well-labeled graph > (what is max, what is min?) before you BEGIN to draw > conclusions

Re: Communicating stat results that are large or small numbers to lay audience

2001-01-26 Thread Gene Gallagher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur J Kendall) wrote: > We are currently looking at how quantitative risk assessment is used. = > Doses can be in micrograms, morbidity can be in rates per hundred thousand = > exposed, mortality in 10 million exposed, and so forth. In this

Re: article on Excel errors

2001-01-26 Thread dennis roberts
try this pdf file ... it is the text of this article http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/15/38/37/25/27/article.pdf At 07:14 AM 1/26/01 +, p_at_c wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Dizinno) wrote: > > A while back someone posted a reference to an article (actua

Re: regression to the mean

2001-01-26 Thread
In article <94qi92$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) writes: > >This has nothing to do with regression to the mean. >The people in the top 10% and the bottom 10% have changed. I see "regression to the mean" and "the people in the top 10% and the bottom 10% have change

Re: regression to the mean

2001-01-26 Thread J E H Shaw
Dennis, I agree with all your points; I thought the news report was a nice example related to regression to the mean and of attempting to prop up a (nearly certainly true) statement using invalid statistics - note that the report appears to refer to the *current* top & bottom 10% and what their

Re: Help Log-Probit in Excel

2001-01-26 Thread Nick Nelson
"H. Noedl" wrote: > Unfortunately my knowledge of statistics is rather limited to the basics > (i.e. regression, t-test etc.). I tried by transforming the drug > concentration into NLog (LN(x)) and the response into probits > (NORMSINV(x)+5) and doing an ordinary linear regression (y=a+bx) to >