Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-07 Thread Edward Dreyer
Does anyone know if Quattro Pro suffers the same statistical problems as Excel? Cheers. ECD ___ Edward C. Dreyer Political Science The University of Tulsa = Instructions for

Mean and Standard Deviation

2001-10-12 Thread Edward Dreyer
A colleague of mine - not a subscriber to this helpful list - asked me if it is possible for the standard deviation to be larger than the mean. If so, under what conditions? At first blush I do not think so - but then I believe I have seen some research results in which standard devia

Re: Free program to generate random samples

2001-09-20 Thread Edward Dreyer
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Re: what type of distribution on this sampling

2001-09-20 Thread Edward Dreyer
> >At 05:48 PM 9/20/2001 +, you wrote: >>I am trying to solve a ? which basically gives the following facts: >> >>population of unknown number >>popu std dev of 27 >>pop mean of 78 >>sample of size n=81 >>2000 random samples >> >>The ? is: >> >>what is the sample mean? >>what is the std error