Matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Hello,
would be nice if someone can give me some advice with regard to the
following problem:
I would like to compare the means of two independent numerical sets of data
whether they are significantly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher J. Mecklin) wrote in message
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Judith, Rich, Art, edstat-l list;
My thanks to your replies and my apologies for not articulating my question
better in my initial post. To be somewhat less vague about my question
(I'll probably be
as in the
Pearson chi-square.
you said briefly but here is a lot more to this topic area.
hopefully this gives you a feeling for what is involved. there are a
bunch of books, try Parmar and Machin: Survival Analysis, Wiley 1995.
JJ Diamond
do you want to include anything about the variables: categorical,
continuous, etc.
anyway, my interpretation of your function is that you are interested
in assessing whether the two variables are independent, i.e. the
likelihood they happen simultaneously is the product of their separate