Re: Mean and Standard Deviation

2001-10-14 Thread Jay Warner
Well, yes. the mean and standard deviation are not 'linked' for data with a Normal distribution. Dale Glaser asked: Well, what about the standard normal distribution: N(0,1)? The mean is 0, the standard deviation, 1. If you add the restriction that the data not be less than 0, and allow a

Re: Are parametric assumptions importat ?

2001-10-14 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 12 Oct 2001 11:14:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lise DeShea) wrote: Re robustness of the between-subjects ANOVA, I obtained permission from Dr. Rand Wilcox to copy three pages from his book, New Statistical Procedures for the Social Sciences, and place them on a webpage for my students.

Re: Mean and Standard Deviation

2001-10-14 Thread Alan McLean
Of course the SD can be larger than the mean. If this were not so we would not have the standard normal... If the variable can take negative values, the mean may be close to zero, or even negative - while the SD has to be positive. If the variable can not take negative values, it is still

Re: edstat-digest V2000 #510

2001-10-14 Thread Jay Warner
Sandra CHANDLER wrote: All the info is at http://www.m-ms.com/us/about/products/index.jsp for each of the different types of mm's. Just click the one in which you are interested. And it works! I think my students (MBA types) can suspend their disbelief long enough to learn to collect