Re: EdStat: Probabilistic inference in resampling?

2001-07-17 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Herman Rubin wrote: I consider the Fisherian one to be the only relevant one. In fact, I do not think it goes far enough; at best, probability is a property of the real world like length and mass. On the contrary: length and mass are abstractions that approximately describe

statistical similarity of two text

2001-07-17 Thread Cantor
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Re: Regression to the mean,Barry Bonds HRs

2001-07-17 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 16 Jul 2001 09:31:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote: [ snip, RTTM is about 'relative' values ... ] the issue that has to be raised with respect to the baseball example is ... are the two halves PARALLEL HALVES? ... like, parallel tests given at essentially the same

Re: Regression to the mean,Barry Bonds HRs

2001-07-17 Thread dennis roberts
At 04:08 PM 7/17/01 -0400, Rich Ulrich wrote: But, so far as I have heard, the league MEANS stay the same. The SDs are the same. There is no preference, that I have ever heard, for records to be set by half-season, early or late, team or individual. My guess is that association between talent