Excel vs. Specialized stats packages (was: Excel vs Quattro Pro)

2002-01-08 Thread James Huntington
Dennis Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... i don't know the answer to this but ... i have a general question with regards to using spreadsheets for stat analysis why? ... why do we not help our students and encourage our students to use

Re: Excel vs. Specialized stats packages (was: Excel vs Quattro Pro)

2002-01-08 Thread Dennis Roberts
rse? This is an interesting discussion, but the line between a spreadsheet and stats package is not so clear-cut these days. If you look at how the major stats packages have developed over the last decade, you can see how they have copied more and more features from Excel. In fact almost all

Re: Excel vs. Specialized stats packages (was: Excel vs Quattro Pro)

2002-01-08 Thread Art Kendall
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --FF40099A76AC09807844CBC3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Huntington wrote: Excel spreadsheet package is still head-and-shoulders above any other similar product in terms of ease of

RE: clusters within a sample

2002-01-08 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Yvonne Unrau writes: I am working with a large administrative data (N=1,086) set for a foster care agency. In short, I am comparing client outcomes across two branches (each is delivering a different service model). For analyses, I am using logistic regression (SPSS) where my

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Re: Excel vs. Specialized stats packages (was: Excel vsQuattro Pro)

2002-01-08 Thread Art Kendall
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --141A87E6CFA8A75FBE4147FD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SPSS also does not claim to have a fully featured spread sheet. The GUI has 2 spreadsheet-like components: the data view which shows

The Chart of the Week website

2002-01-08 Thread Gary Klass
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The chart of the week

2002-01-08 Thread Gary Klass
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Chart of the Week

2002-01-08 Thread Gary Klass
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Re: Chart of the Week

2002-01-08 Thread Carl W.
Gary Klass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/COW/ Does this prove that TV makes you bad at math or that if you're bad at math you tend to watch more TV? This is a bit like the fact that market researchers only glean

Parameter Estimate of Pascal Distribution

2002-01-08 Thread Chia C Chong
Hi! Can I know how do I estimate the parameters for a Pascal distribution?? Thanks,,, CCC = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at

Re: Excel vs. Specialized stats packages (was: Excel vs Quattro Pro)

2002-01-08 Thread Art Kendall
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --2FCDC48C37CC68962902D12E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Excel is a microsoft product. Microsoft's approach is to take existing concepts and re-package them. (e.g., MSDOS followed most of the

Re : Approximation F (Snedecor formula)

2002-01-08 Thread Laurent
I have a problem because I can't find Snedecor values for other level of probability like 0.995 and 0.999. Does'it exit a approximation formula wich gives the values of the Snedecor formula with the two numbers of degres of freedom and the probability level. Something like Taylor developpement

Re: Excel vs. Specialized stats packages (was: Excel vs

2002-01-08 Thread myotis
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote: i have looked at analyse-it and one other plug in (plus what comes with excel) ... and, there just is no comparision between them (well there is ... and it is not very good) and most of the popular stat packages Can

Measurement Position

2002-01-08 Thread Dennis Roberts
Now that the holidays are behind (most) us, I would like to remind possible interested persons in the Asst./Assoc. Professor position opening in Measurement at Penn State ... in the Educational Psychology program. We are hoping to find someone with SOME experience beyond the doctorate (but,

Re: Parameter Estimate of Pascal Distribution

2002-01-08 Thread Chia C Chong
Hi.. I think I know how to solve this already..I found plenty ways to do this in the following book: Univariate discrete distributions, by N.L. Johnson, S. Kotz, A. Kemp Cheers, CCC Chia C Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message a1fac3$f23$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:a1fac3$f23$[EMAIL

Re: Chart of the Week

2002-01-08 Thread Gary Klass
True -- though I don't think the problem is with response rate -- The data come from the National NAEP exam, the data points represent the average state math score and the replies to a survey that I presume was administered to all students taking the test -- since it is a part of the same

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EXCEL 2000 Statistical ToolPac Faults and Problems

2002-01-08 Thread David Heiser
I have started going through McCullough and Wilson's paper On the Accuracy of Statistical Procedures in Microsoft Excel 2000. I have found one error, and may find more. However I need to put them all together, and that will take some time. My point is that the Excel 2000 faults are not that

Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-08 Thread Kenmlin
Why bother teaching students SAS if nobody can afford their annual license fee? Spreadsheets works because many people owns MS Office and chances of their using skills learned in class is greater. Ken = Instructions for joining

Re: Chart of the Week

2002-01-08 Thread Derrick Coetzee
Gary Klass wrote: http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/COW/ As other posters have noted: always beware the obvious implications of correlations. A common example is that drownings and ice cream sales are strongly correlated. I think it worth noting that the students who watch more TV (or any of

*Job Posting* SAS Programmer Analyst - CA, Bay Area

2002-01-08 Thread Tom Whiting
Location: San Francisco Area, CA (East Bay) Successful biotechnology company developing leading-edge products for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. Seeking a SAS Programmer/ Analyst to join the Clinical Data Management team. You will provide SAS programming support

Re: Chart of the Week

2002-01-08 Thread Iyue
Perhaps a bit off topic, but: I don't think your market research observation is all that true. Of course, we should all take survey based results carefully. But (having formerly worked in market research) from what I've seen, representativeness is an issue those folks are VERY well aware of and