Margin Analysis Qstn

2001-01-28 Thread Chris
I have a question that was never directly addressed in any of my business text books. Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area; as I just need a push in the right direction. My current job requires me to analyze margins from the sales of various products and provide an average for each du

Re: Unweighted means: Why the harmonic mean?

2001-01-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:23:02 -0500, Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > The unweighted means method for unbalanced ANOVA designs uses the > harmonic mean of the cell sample sizes. I wonder if anyone can explain > why the harmonic mean, as opposed to any other kind of "ave

Re: Statistical Question

2001-01-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:05:22 -0500, "Lee Creighton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 statist

Re: Variance Reduction Techniques Applied to Forecasting

2001-01-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:07:34 -0600, Bill Vedder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to better understand a statistical method which is vaguely > outlined in a paper I'm reading and am hoping a kind soul here can help. > > The method is described as "variance reduction". The author uses it

Re: A much more basic MCAS fallacy?

2001-01-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:51:25 GMT, Gene Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: < snip > > The DOE's latest description of the conversion of raw points to scaled > scores is for the 1999 exam. These reports were issued Fall 2000. The > appendices of this 52 page pdf to the schools gives the scalin

Re: change scores

2001-01-28 Thread Donald Burrill
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rich Ulrich quoted me: > DB: > What most people who use "ordinal" and "disordinal" seem to mean > > is a plot of the cell means (or of regression lines), with no > > adjustment for main effects: so, a display that includes the > > interaction AND the main effects. I take

Re: Problem on the probability of death

2001-01-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
Steve's Webpage cites the URL of an article that has the opposite opinion from mine. I would not mind seeing some comments from other people. I will add some more, mostly at the end. On 22 Jan 2001 08:49:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: > Apparently, this message did not

textbook / measure and probability

2001-01-28 Thread msvadi
I am looking for an advice on a good textbook in measure and probability. Most graduate level textbooks that I have seen just lay out definitions and theorems and do not give any intuition behind those definitions. I am looking for a textbook that does more. For example, I would like to see an in

Re: article on Excel errors

2001-01-28 Thread dennis roberts
duncan ... glad you mentioned that ... and, i too got a little huffy when i read this ... after all, it is a public site ... freely available to all ... and, the stuff on this page about the 3 "papers" in PCPro (by the way ... i did a good search and could not find anything about this publication

Re: article on Excel errors

2001-01-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28 Jan 2001 04:04:04 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konrad Halupka) wrote: >Look up three papers which have been previously published in the PCPRo, >all by the same author, I guess. > >http://www.woodleyside.co.uk/stats.htm > >(no passwords, but even quoting is "strictly forbidden") The first of

Re: article on Excel errors

2001-01-28 Thread Konrad Halupka
Gerry Dizinno wrote: > > A while back someone posted a reference to an article (actually a web site > that referenced the article) that purported to identify some serious errors > associated with the statistical functions of Excel. Look up three papers which have been previously published in th

Re: A-D in matlab

2001-01-28 Thread Veeral Patel
I used the expression below as suggested by Donald: A2 =( - [long expression]/n) - n but still getting some fairly large values. thanks Veeral = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of I

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-28 Thread myotis
Jay > One piece of advice I received on this topic was: Use DeltaGraph. Even > 4.0 (ca 1997) offers more options, and display control. > Sorry if that isn't exactly what you were looking for The problem, as always is money. Otherwise I agree that something like Deltagraph is the solutio