Re: Stat question

2001-12-01 Thread Stan Brown
Elliot Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: Sima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I have missed some lectures on statistics due to heavy illness : and now i got an assignment which i cannot solve. We all feel sorry for you Sima, but perhaps you should talk to your instructor about it. He

Re: Interpreting p-value = .99

2001-12-01 Thread Stan Brown
[cc'd to previous poster] Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: I think I could not blame students for floundering about on this one. On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:39:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan Brown) wrote: The manufacturer of a patent medicine claims that it is 90%

Re: Interpreting p-value = .99

2001-12-01 Thread Stan Brown
[cc'd to previous poster; please follow up in newsgroup] Robert J. MacG. Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: Stan Brown wrote: The manufacturer of a patent medicine claims that it is 90% effective(*) in relieving an allergy for a period of 8 hours. In a sample of 200 people who

Re: Stat question

2001-12-01 Thread Jon Miller
Stan Brown wrote: I would respectfully suggest that the OP _first_ carefully study the textbook sections that correspond to the missed lectures, get notes from a classmate This part is of doubtful usefulness. , and _then_ contact the instructor to fill in any remaining gaps or answer any

Re: survival curves and life expectancy

2001-12-01 Thread Karp
Beth Clarkson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I'm looking for some sources on how to compute survival rates and remaining life determinations. In particular, I'd like to find information on the Iowa type survivor curves and the retirement rate method. This is

Re: Stat question

2001-12-01 Thread dennis roberts
At 06:13 PM 12/1/01 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: Jon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: Stan Brown wrote: I would respectfully suggest that the OP _first_ carefully study the textbook sections that correspond to the missed lectures, get notes from a classmate This part is

Re: experimental design(doubt)?

2001-12-01 Thread dennis roberts
i think this points out that it is hard to really give good responses sometimes when all the details are not known ... in this case, we really don't have sufficient information on HOW samples were selected and assigned, METHODS and orders that items were heated and then porcelain applied, and

Who said Correlation does not imply causation.

2001-12-01 Thread Andrew Morse
Who was the first to say Correlation does not imply causation in so many words? I know that the idea dates back to David Hume, but Hume did his work about a century before the term correlation acquired its modern statitical meaning. I've seen many sources that crdit Karl Pearson with banishing