Re: Sorry for question, but how is the english word for @

2002-01-09 Thread nada
at Nathaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:9v3d79$2rj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, Sorry for question, but how is the english word for @ Pleas forgive me. N. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks

what is the appropriate method?

2002-01-09 Thread Jukka Sinisalo
We have two pots with 25 plants each. After an identical treatment we wait for a week, and then calculate how many of the plants died. We repeat this experiment 20 times, so we end up with 20 pairs of survival percantages. We are interested in determining the accuracy/reliability of our method.

LF: Formula 26.6.2 of Abramowitz and Stegun

2002-01-09 Thread Laurence
Hello, I look for the Formula 26.6.2 of Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions (1966) is used to reduce the computation of the cumulative distribution function for the F variate to that of an incomplete beta. Thanks in advance. Laurence

Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-09 Thread Dennis Roberts
this is about the most irrelevant argument i have heard ... as though the only stat package is SAS ... there are many excellent stat packages ... even their student trimmed down versions are better that excel add ons ... and, hundreds of institutions have cheap software purchase options ...

Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-09 Thread Art Kendall
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --B959A4D6FCA2A833B28E3DCE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I concur. http://www.spss.com/education/ gives many options for student packages or rental. I didn't go through the details, but if

Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-09 Thread Art Kendall
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --7A704B38125A473B51E476CC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That has certainly been my experience. Often it is people who don't even understand spreadsheets either. Ken K. wrote: Whenever I see

Re: Chart of the Week

2002-01-09 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:47:19 -0500, Derrick Coetzee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: what is the appropriate method?

2002-01-09 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:33:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jukka Sinisalo) wrote: We have two pots with 25 plants each. After an identical treatment we wait for a week, and then calculate how many of the plants died. We repeat this experiment 20 times, so we end up with 20 pairs of survival

Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-09 Thread A.J. Rossini
GG == Gus Gassmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are plenty of reasonable FREE packages, ViSta and R come to mind. GG That's all fine and good, but I can see kenmlin's point. Yes, GG excel is lousy at statistics, yes, their attitude towards GG errors in the software

Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-09 Thread Ken K.
I feel sorry for your students if what you say is true. They just don't have much of a future. In today's marketplace, with the almost unbeleivable whirlwind of Six Sigma Balck Belt (and related) activity out there in both manufacturing AND service organizations, anyone who doesn't understand

Fisher Tippett Extreme Value Theorem

2002-01-09 Thread Vmcw
Hi! I'm looking at an article that references a result by Fisher Tippett (specific reference is Limiting Forms of the Frequency Distribution of the Largest or Smallest Member of a Sample, Procedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 24, 180-190 (1928)). The article presents the result as