Re: regression on timeseries data: differencing ?

2001-11-15 Thread Donald Burrill
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Wendy (alias Eric Duton?) wrote: When applying multiple regression on timeseries data, should I check (similarly to ARIMA-models) for unit roots in the dependent variable and the predictor variables and perform the necessary differencing OR could

diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread dennis roberts
in the moore and mccabe book (IPS), in the section on testing for differences in population proportions, when it comes to doing a 'z' test for significance, they argue for (and say this is commonly done) that the standard error for the difference in proportions formula should be a POOLED one

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread jim clark
Hi On 15 Nov 2001, dennis roberts wrote: in the moore and mccabe book (IPS), in the section on testing for differences in population proportions, when it comes to doing a 'z' test for significance, they argue for (and say this is commonly done) that the standard error for the difference

Re: Z Scores and stuff

2001-11-15 Thread Sandra CHANDLER
Well here is my two cents. Get a TI-83. a lot of the formulas you want are already programmed into it and by just entering data or mean, stdev, etc, you'll get a z value and also the p-value you need to do a hypothesis test. I know it would be in addition to your palm pilot to carry

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 08:51 AM 11/15/01 -0600, jim clark wrote: The Ho in the case of means is NOT about the variances, so the analogy breaks down. That is, we are not hypothesizing Ho: sig1^2 = sig2^2, but rather Ho: mu1 = mu2. So there is no direct link between Ho and the SE, unlike the proportions example.

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread Jerry Dallal
dennis roberts wrote: in the moore and mccabe book (IPS), in the section on testing for differences in population proportions, when it comes to doing a 'z' test for significance, they argue for (and say this is commonly done) that the standard error for the difference in proportions formula

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread Radford Neal
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the moore and mccabe book (IPS), in the section on testing for differences in population proportions, when it comes to doing a 'z' test for significance, they argue for (and say this is commonly done) that the standard

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread Rolf Dalin
I'm not really arguing for using the pooled stdev in this case, I'm just trying to find out the reasons for significance testing procedures. I think that what were discussing here is if we should use CIs BOTH for stating effect sizes with errors AND for hypoyhesis testing. I read a book by

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Dennis Roberts wrote: At 08:51 AM 11/15/01 -0600, jim clark wrote: The Ho in the case of means is NOT about the variances, so the analogy breaks down. That is, we are not hypothesizing Ho: sig1^2 = sig2^2, but rather Ho: mu1 = mu2. So there is no direct link between Ho and the SE,

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread Jerry Dallal
Radford Neal wrote: The difference is that when dealing with real data, it is possible for two populations to have the same mean (as assumed by the null), but different variances. In contrast, when dealing with binary data, if the means are the same in the two populations, the variances

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-15 Thread John Kane
Jerry Dallal wrote: John Kane wrote: Very true and I was being deliberatly provocative. Howeever I still cannot see penalizing someone for gerttaingt the right anwser no matter how arried at. Problem: Divide 95 by 19. Student writes 95/19, 9's cancel, leaving 5/1 = 5 . How much

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread dennis roberts
At 08:03 PM 11/15/01 +, Radford Neal wrote: Radford Neal: The difference is that when dealing with real data, it is possible for two populations to have the same mean (as assumed by the null), but different variances. In contrast, when dealing with binary data, if the means are the

Testing a regression model

2001-11-15 Thread Robert Davy
Hello, I'm working on a univariate linear regression problem with a moderate amount of data (65 points). Now, I know how to calculate the standard error for a single prediction (given that all the usual assumptions are satisfied). My question is, with this moderate amount of data, is there any

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-15 Thread Stan Brown
Jerry Dallal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: Problem: Divide 95 by 19. Student writes 95/19, 9's cancel, leaving 5/1 = 5 . How much credit do you award? Perfect example! -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA

Most Frequently Used Clustering Algorithm

2001-11-15 Thread Chia C Chong
Hi! I am new in this area..I wonder which clustering algorithm is the most frequently used and maybe the most robust?? I intend to use some kind of clustering to identify two random variables in obervations I have got. Thanks.. CCC

Re: diff in proportions

2001-11-15 Thread jim clark
Hi On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jerry Dallal wrote: But, if the null hypothesis is that the means are the same, why isn't(aren't) the sample variance(s) calculated about a pooled estimate of the common mean? What you are testing is whether there is more variability between groups than you would

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-15 Thread dennis roberts
would we give full credit for 87/18 = 7/1 ... 8's cancel? Full marks. As Napoleon used to ask, Is he lucky?. :) He/she deserves it.! -- John Kane The Rideau Lakes, Ontario Canada = Instructions for joining