Re: likert scale items - why not PCA?

2001-07-27 Thread Magenta
John Uebersax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... The common factor model is compatible with the idea that you have unobserved constructs that you wish to estimate using item responses. The constructs are presumed measured with error. A common

Re: likert scale items - why not PCA?

2001-07-27 Thread Magenta
Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Ah... I notice, orthogonal factors can do a serious job of reflecting the reality of factors that are moderately correlated. If two axes are 70-degrees instead of 90-degrees, there's a massive

need help with SAS

2001-07-27 Thread Nadine Wells
Does anyone know what the power link function does in SAS? I have to provide a parameter estimate in parenthases after the link=power command. I've been using -1 but when I plot the equation based on the parameter estimates, the model doesn't seem to look like I want it to. Does anyone know

Re: independent, identically distributed

2001-07-27 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Height of an individual' is only a random variable when the selection of the individual and the measurement of his or her height is still in the future. The full name of the variable is 'Height of a randomly chosen individual'!

Re: Excel

2001-07-27 Thread Sandra CHANDLER
I'd use Minitab for this. Excel is not the best thing to use for stats. :-) SR Chandler Mathematics Faculty TCC - Moss Campus [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onlinelearning.tc.cc.va.us/faculty/tcchans/ -- Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe. -- Galileo

Assessment and Cognition Conference

2001-07-27 Thread James S. Roberts
Assessment and Cognition: Theory to Practice August 13-14, 2001 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland A conference hosted by the Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation, University of Maryland, and supported by the Maryland State Department of Education. Organized by

Re: EXCEL

2001-07-27 Thread dennis roberts
At 03:41 PM 7/27/01 -0700, David Heiser wrote: Lets not knock EXCEL for statistics. Most of the responses are biased, because they don't have to pay the excessive cost of the software they are recommending. The EXCEL stat package comes with Microsoft OFFICE, so in many, many situations, the stat

Re: need help with SAS

2001-07-27 Thread Donald Burrill
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Nadine Wells wrote in part: Does anyone know what the power link function does in SAS? [...] when I plot the equation based on the parameter estimates, the model doesn't seem to look like I want it to. [...] I am trying to get SAS to run a model that resembles

Re: Query: Correspondence analysis on a frequency table with few zero observed frequencies

2001-07-27 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 26 Jul 2001 07:20:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sangdon Lee) wrote: Dear colleagues, I applied correspondence analysis on a frequency table (16x22) in which some of the observed cells have zero frequencies. I was able to find out patterns very well, showing horseshoe effects. Since the

web page to help use normal table

2001-07-27 Thread EAKIN MARK E
I have just finished creating an ASP web page that will help students use a normal table that gives probabilities for ranges of the standard normal that start at 0 up to a Z value. If you wish to try it, go to http://www2.uta.edu/eakin/busa3321/normaltable/p2.asp I would be interested in

Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-27 Thread Dennis Roberts
i visited this page ... here are a few comments 1. you have 9 scenarios on the page but, really ... you don't need that many area above/below a point area between or beyond 2 points so ... i would reduce the number of basic graphs that you present 2. if you reduce 1 above then you can

Re: Nonrandomness of binary matrices

2001-07-27 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 25 Jul 2001 11:44:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Strauss) wrote: Thanks to Rich Ulrich for the suggestion below -- that was the direction I was heading, but there seem to be difficulties. The general problem is [ snip; looking at rows and columns ... ] But the problem is: what if the

Monitoring fuses design

2001-07-27 Thread Dale Glaser
Hi there...some colleagues (I'm not on this project) have a question regarding their research strategy..any suggestions would be most helpful..thank you...dale *** The situation: 1. Your job is to continuously monitor a 10 X 10 grid of fuses. 2. Each fuse has either a red