A NEW Electronic BOOK on STATISTICS!

2002-01-10 Thread Victor Aladjev
A NEW Electronic BOOK on STATISTICS! Dear Colleagues, We are sending you the following announcement of a new book publication of Prof. Dr. Victor Aladjev and believe you could be interested in this subject matter. If you or your colleagues are not interested in this publication, simply

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2002-01-10 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for late reply ranking is the LEAST useful thing you can do ... so, i would never START with simple ranks any sort of an absolute kind of scale ... imperfect as it is ... would generally be better ... You can say that

Re: what is the appropriate method?

2002-01-10 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:00:06 +0100, Jos Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:33:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jukka Sinisalo) wrote: We have two pots with 25 plants each.

Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread EugeneGall
The Gallup organization posted a video to explain why the the increase in black's job approval for Bush is 'proportionate' to the increase among whites. Both increased by about 30% (60 to 90 for whites, mid thirties to roughly 70% for blacks), so the increase is proportionate, not

Re: Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread Dennis Roberts
there are two sets of data ... one for georgeDUBU ... and the elder george bush here is what i glean from the charts for george w ... the EVENT was sept 11 ... for the elder george bush ... the EVENT was the gulf war ... and both were before and after ratings 1. whites approval rating for

Re: Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread EugeneGall
His definition of proportionate would mean that if a group's approval of Bush went from 1% to 31%, that too would be proportionate. The relative odds would be one way of expressing the changes in proportions, but the absolute difference (60% to 90% is roughly propotionate to an increase from 33%