Salaries and gender

2002-03-04 Thread Rolf Dalin
I will be working with analysis of salary differences in a gender perspective in my university, and I would like to know if anyone out there has been doing anything similar. What I wonder is what are the mechanisms that drive salary differences and how to detect them and model them

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Re: Salaries and gender

2002-03-04 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Include in your list of references on salary differences and gender the article by M. H. Birnbaum, Relationships among models of salary bias, American Psychologist, 1985, July, 862-866. ~~~ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina

Re: Splus or R

2002-03-03 Thread Eric Bohlman
Anonymous God-fearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to generate a correlation matrix given a covariance matrix in Splus? Or could you give the details of how to do it in another language? corr[i,j] = cov[i,j]/sqrt(cov[i,i]*cov[j,j])

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-03-03 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 28 Feb 2002 07:37:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Anderson) wrote: Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On 27 Feb 2002 11:59:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Anderson) wrote: BA I have a continuous response variable that ranges from 0 to

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Splus or R

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Re: REML for Dummies?

2002-03-01 Thread Anon.
Dr Jonathan Newman wrote: I'm trying to find a good introduction to REML (restricted maximum likelihood). I'm a biologist rather than a statistician. If you have any suggestions I'd great appreciate hearing them. Thanks. Lynch Walsh (1998)? (Genetic Analysis of Quantitative Traits,

help on factor analysis/non-normality

2002-03-01 Thread Mobile Survey
What do i do if I need to run a factor analysis and have non-normal distribution for some of the items (indicators)? Does Principal component analysis require the normality assumption Can I use GLS to extract the factors and get over the problem of non-normality Please do give references if you

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Re: REML for Dummies?

2002-03-01 Thread kjetil halvorsen
A good book is Pinheiro, J.C. and Bates., D.M. mixed models with S and S-Plus, Springer. Kjetil Halvorsen Dr Jonathan Newman wrote: I'm trying to find a good introduction to REML (restricted maximum likelihood). I'm a biologist rather than a statistician. If you have any suggestions

Re: detecting outliers in NON normal data ?

2002-03-01 Thread Erik-André Sauleau
But Mahalanobis distance is sensible to swamping and masking so is it really a good measure for outliers? DELOMBA a écrit dans le message ... What about Hat Matrix ? Mahalanobis distance ? Yves Voltolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-03-01 Thread Eric Bohlman
Rolf Dalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Anderson wrote: I have a continuous response variable that ranges from 0 to 750. I only have 90 observations and 26 are at the lower limit of 0, What if you treated the information collected by that variable as really two variables, one

Re: REML for Dummies?

2002-03-01 Thread John Uebersax
The Enclyclopedia of Biostatistics (Armitage P, Colton T; Wiley, 1999?) has an article on REML. I have not seen the article, but usually their articles well explain statistical concepts to non-statisticians. The Encyclopedia is a resource you might find helpful in general. For more info, see:

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-03-01 Thread Brad Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Bohlman) wrote in message news:a5o5b1$fi0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Rolf Dalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, your example is exactly the sort of situation for which Tobit modelling was invented. Considered that (actually estimated a couple of Tobit models and if I use

Re: help on factor analysis/non-normality

2002-03-01 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 1 Mar 2002 04:51:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mobile Survey) wrote: What do i do if I need to run a factor analysis and have non-normal distribution for some of the items (indicators)? Does Principal component analysis require the normality assumption. There is no problem of

Re: Robust regression

2002-03-01 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 1 Mar 2002 00:36:01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yu) wrote: I know that robust regression can downweight outliers. Should someone apply robust regression when the data have skewed distributions but do not have outliers? Regression assumptions require normality of residuals, but not

Re: Robust regression

2002-03-01 Thread Vadim and Oxana Marmer
If, for example, normality assumption holds then by doing robust regression instead of OLS you lose efficiency. So, it's not the same result after all. But you can do both, compare and decide. If robust regression produces results which are not really different from the OLS then stay with OLS.

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Re: help on factor analysis/non-normality

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Ehrlich
to amplifiy a bit, the interpretability of regression tends to go down as the assumptions of normality and homogeneous variance are markedly different from reality. You can still go through the calcualtions but the interpretation of results gets tricky. Factor analysis is a sort of regression

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Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread Art Kendall
I would consider it a unipolar extent scale Maybe the visual anchor should be 0 to 6 to aid association with the number line concept Dennis Roberts wrote: At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful just out of curiosity how

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread Art Kendall
DMR, I should have read your previous posting more carefully I have now had coffee Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful is a question that has an extent response format The cognitive schema the response format tries to invoke might be reinforced by anchoring with zero for

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread J. Williams
On 27 Feb 2002 15:01:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote: At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful just out of curiosity ... how many consider the above to be an example of a bipolar scale? i don't now, if we

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-02-28 Thread Brad Anderson
Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On 27 Feb 2002 11:59:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Anderson) wrote: I have a continuous response variable that ranges from 0 to 750. I only have 90 observations and 26 are at the lower limit of 0, which is

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-02-28 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 07:37 AM 2/28/02 -0800, Brad Anderson wrote: I think a lot of folks just run standard analyses or arbitrarily apply some normalizing transformation because that's whats done in their field. Then report the results without really examining the underlying distributions. I'm curious how folks

REML for Dummies?

2002-02-28 Thread Dr Jonathan Newman
I'm trying to find a good introduction to REML (restricted maximum likelihood). I'm a biologist rather than a statistician. If you have any suggestions I'd great appreciate hearing them. Thanks. -- Dr Jonathan Newman St. Peter's College, New Inn Hall Street,

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-28 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 09:51 AM 2/28/02 -0800, Jay Tanzman wrote: I partially did this, insofar as I ran Pearson and Spearman correlations between several of the scales and, not surprisingly, the two correlation coefficients and their p-values were similar. that issue is entirely a separate one since the rank

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-02-28 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 27 Feb 2002 14:14:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote: At 04:11 PM 2/27/02 -0500, Rich Ulrich wrote: Categorizing the values into a few categories labeled, none, almost none, is one way to convert your scores. If those labels do make sense. well, if 750 has the

Re: Find PDF of RV with a given mean value

2002-02-28 Thread Herman Rubin
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Applied analysis question

2002-02-27 Thread Brad Anderson
I have a continuous response variable that ranges from 0 to 750. I only have 90 observations and 26 are at the lower limit of 0, which is the modal category. The mean is about 60 and the median is 3; the distribution is highly skewed, extremely kurtotic, etc. Obviously, none of the power

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-02-27 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 04:11 PM 2/27/02 -0500, Rich Ulrich wrote: Categorizing the values into a few categories labeled, none, almost none, is one way to convert your scores. If those labels do make sense. well, if 750 has the same numerical sort of meaning as 0 (unit wise) ... in terms of what is being

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-27 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful just out of curiosity ... how many consider the above to be an example of a bipolar scale? i don't now, if we had an item like: sad happy 1 . 7 THEN the mid point

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2002-02-27 Thread Mark Harrison
Good places to start: Optimal feature extractors, that's better than PCA because you whiten your inter class scatter and so put all inter class comparisons on the same level. The good thing is this will also reduce your feature vector dimensionality to c-1 (where c is # classes). PCA will not do

Re: Statistics Tool For Classification/Clustering

2002-02-27 Thread Mark Harrison
Corection typo: Should read 'Whiten intra class scatter' Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:FIif8.16518$[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Good places to start: Optimal feature extractors, that's better than PCA because you whiten your inter class scatter and so put all inter class

Re: Applied analysis question

2002-02-27 Thread Rolf Dalin
Brad Anderson wrote: I have a continuous response variable that ranges from 0 to 750. I only have 90 observations and 26 are at the lower limit of 0, What if you treated the information collected by that variable as really two variables, one categorical variable indicating zero or non-zero

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Re: detecting outliers in NON normal data ?

2002-02-26 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 00f301c1be68$13413000$fde9e3c8@oemcomputer, Voltolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to know if methods for detecting outliers using interquartil ranges are indicated for data with NON normal distribution. The software Statistica presents this method: data point value UBV

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Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-26 Thread Jay Tanzman
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Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-26 Thread Rich Ulrich
2. Perhaps more likely, your boss may have learned (wrongly?) that parametric stats should not be done unless scales of measurement are at least interval in quality. I don't know if his objection was to parametric statistics per se, but he did object to calculating means on these

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2002-02-26 Thread Alan McLean
Jay Tanzman wrote: Jay Warner wrote: Jay Tanzman wrote: I just got chewed out by my boss for modelling the means of some 7-point semantic differential scales. The scales were part of a written, self-administered questionnaire, and were laid out like this: Not stressful

Re: Find PDF of RV with a given mean value

2002-02-26 Thread Glen
Chia C Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:a5g27d$e57$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi! I have a set of random numbers and if I know their expectation/mean, would it be possible to deduce a PDF to describe the distribution of them? Knowing the mean tells you (almost) nothing about the

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2002-02-25 Thread Chia C Chong
Hi! Does anyone come across some Matlab code to estimate the parameters for the Cauchy PDF?? Or some other sources about the method to estimate their parameters?? Thanks.. CCC = Instructions for joining and leaving this

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2002-02-25 Thread Voltolini
Hi, My doubt isan outlier can be a LOW data value in the sample (and not just the highest) ? Several text boks dont make this clear !!! Thanks V. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the

Re: Cauchy PDF + Parameter Estimate

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On 25 Feb 2002 07:56:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kjetil halvorsen) wrote: It isstraightforward tlo write down the loglikelihood, and then whatever optimization routine (there must be one in Matlab) will help you! Just be careful when searching, because Cauchy likelihoods are frequently

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Re: What is an outlier ? cont'd

2002-02-25 Thread Art Kendall
--A59A95727DA65C2AB2F9EBF5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit That being said, occasions can arise where there are outliers other than from measurement or data entry error. Different disciplines have different approaches. What discipline are

What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Art Kendall
--6F47CB3D3B10A10A3E9B064C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An outlier is any value for a variable that is suspect given the measurement system, common sense, other values for the variable in the data set, or the values a case has on other

Re: What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Dennis Roberts
of course, if one has control over the data, checking the coding and making sure it is correct is a good thing to do if you do not have control over that, then there may be very little you can do with it and in fact, you may be totally UNaware of an outlier problem i see as a potentially MUCH

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Re: detecting outliers in NON normal data ?

2002-02-25 Thread Glen Barnett
Voltolini wrote: Hi, I would like to know if methods for detecting outliers using interquartil ranges are indicated for data with NON normal distribution. The software Statistica presents this method: data point value UBV + o.c.*(UBV - LBV) data point value LBV - o.c.*(UBV - LBV)

Re: Cauchy PDF + Parameter Estimate

2002-02-25 Thread Glen Barnett
Herman Rubin wrote: In article a5daqb$72k$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Chia C Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does anyone come across some Matlab code to estimate the parameters for the Cauchy PDF?? Or some other sources about the method to estimate their parameters?? What is so difficult

Re: What is an outlier ?

2002-02-25 Thread Glen Barnett
Voltolini wrote: Hi, My doubt isan outlier can be a LOW data value in the sample (and not just the highest) ? Several text boks dont make this clear !!! What makes an outlier an outlier is your model. If your model accounts for all the observations, you can't really call any of

Re: Means of semantic differential scales

2002-02-25 Thread Jay Warner
Jay Tanzman wrote: I just got chewed out by my boss for modelling the means of some 7-point semantic differential scales. The scales were part of a written, self-administered questionnaire, and were laid out like this: Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful So, why or

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2002-02-22 Thread Glen Barnett
Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:55:42 +1100, Glen Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... A straight line CDF would imply the data is

Re: What is an experiment ?

2002-02-22 Thread SSCHEINE
Let me take a (somewhat) contrarian position to those previously expressed. An experiment is any test of a hypothesis. An experiment can involve the use of observational (unmanipulated) data, as long as the hypothesis is clearly stated prior to the collection of the data. While it is true that an

regression of non-normal data ?

2002-02-22 Thread John Ziker
Hi, This research deals with the classical anthropological question of food sharing among hunters and gatherers. There are a number of hypotheses being discussed within the field. This study is relevant for two models, namely kinship cooperation and reciprocity. The kinship model predicts

REQ: Appendix A. of Radford Neal thesis: Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks

2002-02-22 Thread Mark
Hi, I'm CS student interested in Radford Neal thesis called Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks. I know that some years ago this thesis was available for download from author's site, but nowadays there isn't possible. I have searched it on Intenet so I have not known to find it. I should be

Re: Evaluation of skating

2002-02-22 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 19 Feb 2002 15:14:01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Bond) wrote: [ snip, much ] affected who won the gold medal. In fact, Looney (1994, p. 156) concluded: all of the judges with an Eastern block or communistic background not only ranked Baiul better than expected, but ranked

RE: SPC control limits

2002-02-22 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Title: RE: SPC control limits Jay Warner writes: The 'party line' is to take the first 30 or so points, calculate limits, throw out any outside ones add more at the end, until you have 30 points, all of which are inside the control limits. Actually, I have heard the opposite.

Re: Question on CDF

2002-02-22 Thread Henry
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:27:00 +1100, Glen Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:55:42 +1100, Glen Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL

Re: What is an experiment ?

2002-02-22 Thread Jay Tanzman
SSCHEINE wrote: Let me take a (somewhat) contrarian position to those previously expressed. An experiment is any test of a hypothesis. An experiment can involve the use of observational (unmanipulated) data, as long as the hypothesis is clearly stated prior to the collection of the data.

Re: Question on CDF

2002-02-22 Thread Glen Barnett
Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I was trying to suggest that he meant the slope of the CDF was the height of the PDF. Oh, okay. Yes, that would be correct, but it shouldn't be called probability! Glen

In a 2x2 ANOVA, should outliers be calculated overall, or per cell?

2002-02-22 Thread JKK
Hi all, many further thanks for the help I recently received on setting up data for repeated measures analysis, thanks to the help I got here I have been able to do that analysis. A further question: it seems one could come up with justifications for several ways to compute outliers in a

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outliers

2002-02-22 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
Jim said "Reaction time outliers are most often due to distraction or a missed cue, so that it is usually not necessary to individually justify excluding each single outlier." While this may be common practice, you should keep in mind that it is possible that your experimental treatment

Re: SPC control limits

2002-02-22 Thread Jay Warner
Inasmuch as the objective is to 'drain the swamp' - reduce product process variation, I find that in practice Wheeler's suggestion of focus on causes of that variation is on the mark. the procedure from the old Ford Manual, and I believe the 6th 7th Ed. of Grant Leavenworth, puts the focus on

Re: Which is faster? ziggurat or Monty Python (or maybe something else?)

2002-02-21 Thread Ian Buckner
Thanks for the enlightenment, George. I misinterpreted what was said in Numerical Recipes, where it starts by referring to the Box-Muller method, then gives your algorithm without any intermediate referral. Hence I had always thought of this method as being B-M. Hey, I learnt something new, can

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2002-02-21 Thread SR Millis
Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Scientist Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation, West Orange, NJ. Full time position for professional with interest and skills relevant to research on the outcomes of rehabilitative interventions for persons with disability,

Re: Question on CDF

2002-02-21 Thread Glen Barnett
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linda) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi! If I plot CDF of a sample data and this CDF looks like a straight line cross through 0. What does this implies?? Normally, CDF

Re: Question on CDF

2002-02-21 Thread Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linda) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi! If I plot CDF of a sample data and this CDF looks like a straight line cross through 0. What does this implies?? Normally, CDF will not look like a straight line but sth like a S2 shape, isn't?? Linda A straight

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