Categorical independents and continuous (counts) dependent

2001-11-19 Thread Anna
I am working on a dataset, which involves three categorical (two dichotomies, and one of 5 categories) independent variables and a continuous variable that consists of counts. The idea is to look at the significance of the group differences/ the (main and interaction) effects of the independents

part. SS

2001-11-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
i have put up a little worked out example of the partitioning of SS in a simple 3 group situation ... for ANOVA ... with a diagram of where the components come from ... http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/introstat/sspart1.png this might be helpful to some ... if you want to print ...

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
BW == Bruce Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BW On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: What _is_ biostatistics, anyway? A student asked me, and I realized I have only a vague idea. BW There was a thread on biostatistics versus statistics a BW couple years ago, I think,

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 03:08 PM 11/19/01 +, A.J. Rossini wrote: BW == Bruce Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BW On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: What _is_ biostatistics, anyway? A student asked me, and I realized I have only a vague idea. BW There was a thread on biostatistics

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
DR == Dennis Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DR At 03:08 PM 11/19/01 +, A.J. Rossini wrote: BW == Bruce Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BW On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Stan Brown wrote: What _is_ biostatistics, anyway? A student asked me, and I realized I

Re: Evaluating students

2001-11-19 Thread Eric Bohlman
John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Roberts wrote: At 08:56 AM 11/16/01 -0700, Roy St Laurent wrote: It's not clear to me whether recent posters are serious about these examples, but I will reiterate my previous post: For most mathematics / statistics examinations, the answer to a

Maximized lambda4

2001-11-19 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Callender and Osburn (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977, 37, 819-825) developed a method for estimating maximized lambda4, the greatest split-half reliability coefficient among all possible split halves for a scale. The method is quite tedious to do by hand, and the authors

RE: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread Seymann, Richard
And if I may muddy the waters even more, what is the difference between biostatistics and biometry? Dick ___ Richard G. Seymann, Ph.D. Professor of Statistics Director of Academic Assessment Director of the Westover Honors Program Lynchburg College,

Re: Maximized lambda4

2001-11-19 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 01:49 PM 11/19/01 -0500, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: Callender and Osburn (Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977, 37, 819-825) developed a method for estimating maximized lambda4, the greatest split-half reliability coefficient among all possible split halves for a scale. The

RE: Maximized lambda4

2001-11-19 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Dennis asked how do we know what a test's true reliability is? Osburn knew because he simulated true-score covariance matrices and from these obtained observed score covariance matrices as a function of the true-score matrices and hypothetical values of reliability. More details are in

Re: biostatistics careers

2001-11-19 Thread A.J. Rossini
RS == Richard Seymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RS And if I may muddy the waters even more, what is the RS difference between biostatistics and biometry? Dick Depends on which definition of biometry you are using. One definition used to be an older name for what is now biostatistics

10 envelopes, 10 persons

2001-11-19 Thread Stan Brown
Problem posed me by a student: ten persons (A through J) and ten envelopes containing cards marked with letters A through J. (Each letter is in one and only one envelope.) The random variable x is the number of people who get the right envelope when the envelopes are handed out randomly.

Re: 10 envelopes, 10 persons

2001-11-19 Thread Glen Barnett
Stan Brown wrote: Problem posed me by a student: ten persons (A through J) and ten envelopes containing cards marked with letters A through J. (Each letter is in one and only one envelope.) The random variable x is the number of people who get the right envelope when the envelopes are