minitab: an introduction

back in 1992, i had two little books published by kendall/hunt ... 1. MINITAB: An Introduction 2. MINITAB: An Introduction for Business this was back when release 8 was around and commands were the thing of the day table of contents looked liked (for #1): 1. overview to minitab 2.

Re: spss polynomial contrast estimates

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:57:02 -0500, "K. Bloom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran some data through a simple one way polynomial analysis in spss. I had 3 groups and very unequal n's. By hand, I calculated the contrast estimates for both the linear and quadratic trends using the unweighted

Re: Margin Analysis Qstn

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 06:28:23 GMT, "Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Assuming a normal distribution, what method should I use to calculate my averages? Should I simply take the sample mean? - I think your problem is that you *don't* want to assume a normal distribution. For

Re: Excel Graphics

The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never be used for any purpose as they produce misleading graphs -- mainly false third dimensions that can only serve to hide

p values

in an article ... that some might be able to access ... http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7280/226 by Jonathan A C Sterne, senior lecturer in medical statistics, George Davey Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology. Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR

Re: Aggregating Data

Magill, Brett wrote: 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

SPSS Macro for computing Gini coefficient of inequality

Hello to all. Recently I needed to compute the Gini coefficient in SPSS. When I found, that there is no possibility to get it via DESCRIPTIVES or FREQ procedure I tried to write a macro which would compute it for me. Unfortunately I don't have much experience in macro writing, I don't know how

Re: Excel Graphics

Jon, The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never be used for any purpose as they produce misleading graphs -- mainly false third dimensions that can only serve

Re: SPSS Macro for computing Gini coefficient of inequality

I haven't used the Gini coefficient in the last 25 years, so I can't give more complete advice. However, from your description, you can can get such a sum without a macro by RANK VARIABLE= income (d) /rank into r_income. * to get the rank for each case. WEIGHT BY r_income. * to turn on

FW: t critical: beta (Power ala David Murray) (fwd)

I'm posting this message on behalf of my friend. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:15:49 -0800 From: Renita Glaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: t critical: beta (Power ala David Murray) I am doing a power analysis using

Re: Excel Graphics

Then, what is the use of EXCEL? Siddeek Jon Cryer wrote: The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never be used for any purpose as they produce misleading

Re: p values

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --152074D07C4F46BEF5496A61 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One should note that this comment was taken from an article critical of significance testing. I understand Sterne and Smith's comment to

Re: Excel Graphics

if you can use excel to do what you need doing and, it does not lead to any serious (tweaking?) complications fine but, what happens if you want one of your colleagues to do something a little different ... like make a x,y plot ... where you have both male and female data points

Re: FW: t critical: beta (Power ala David Murray) (fwd)

let's see ... say you have two overlapping distributions ... on the left, the null distribution ... and on the right, the assumed to be true sampling distribution ... now, in setting up the power problem ... you have to set alpha ... say that is a two tailed .05 test ... and really the upper

Re: Excel Graphics

i think, if i might be allowed to speak for jon, he would say that it is a good SPREADSHEET package ... that was what it was designed for ... add ons to make it also a statistical package ... are a different matter it is sort of like having ms word ... where it has this add on feature of

Re: p values

i see two places in the sterne and smith article, which is in my hand ... that say hat p is an indication of the p of the null not being true ... or evidence against the null on page 2 of 10 ... they list summary points and, the one i quoted before ... p values, or significance levels ..

RE: Excel Graphics

Another package that produces nice plain charts in Excel is XLStatistics. A free version can be downloaded from http://www.man.deakin.edu.au/rodneyc/xlstats.htm Rodney ~~ Rodney Carr School of Management Information Systems Deakin University PO Box

Re: Excel Graphics

Those specific papers referred to in an earlier discussion have addressed errors in Statistics and other add-in (e.g., Solver) calculations in EXCEL. If I remember correct, the errors occur from the 7 th decimal place and may aggravate if repeated calculations (as in simulations) are made. I do

Statistical Quality Control,Grant Leavnworth

Statistical Quality Control,Grant Leavnworth 7th edition For sale on eBay see item 1407155701 = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at