Re: Schmid-Leiman

2001-10-10 Thread Joe Ward
Julie -- I worked with Jack Schmid and John Leiman at the Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center at Lackland AFB. I communicate with Jack Schmid occasionally but I'm not sure where John Leiman is located now. Perhaps Jack can point you to someone who can help. -- Joe - Original

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Ward
Paolo -- Here comes my usual response to messages similar to yours: Following the use of Regression/Linear Models: 1. State your research question in "NATURAL LANGUAGE" not in terms of a "canned statistical name" that may or may not be relevant to your question. 2. Create an ASSUMED MODEL that

Re: adjusted r-square

2001-08-22 Thread Joe Ward
If the least-squares regression algorithm does not "REQUIRE THE NUMBER OF OBSERVATIONS TO EXCEED THE NUMBER OF PREDICTORS, THEN THE REGRESSION ALGORITHM COULD BE USED TO SOLVE A SYSTEM OF SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS THAT WOULD HAVE NO ERRORS." Another "interesting" characteristic of Excel Regression i

Re: Experimental Design Text Advice

2001-01-18 Thread Joe Ward
his list and remarks about > the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > = > === Joe Ward Comments == Dennis -- You said it well!!! I might add that a good approach is to develop capabilities to create

Re: Re: topic?

2001-01-02 Thread Joe Ward
Happy New Year -- Perhaps Laurie Snell will make a good start through the future CHANCE issues. -- Joe Joe Ward 167 East Arrowhead Dr. San Antonio, TX 78228-2402 Home phone: 210-433-6575 Home fax: 210-433-2828 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ijoa.org

Re: Statistical penalties for sequential analyses

2000-12-08 Thread Joe Ward
Rich - You might want to consider doing some Resampling (Cross-Validation, Bootstrap) as you continue through your analyses. -- Joe Joe Ward Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead

Re: [ap-stat] Textbook for "regular" statistics vs. AP Statistics

2000-12-01 Thread Joe Ward
s > site, which book? I am seriously considering the Yates, Moore and > McCabe "The Practice of Statistics" for the AP class. I am > considering either Moore's "Basic Practice of Statistice" or the > "Elementary Statistics" book published by McGr

[ap-stat] RE: election proposal

2000-11-14 Thread Joe Ward
Does anyone know WHY so many states DON'T DO IT THIS WAY? Perhaps the Political Science/History folks can comment. -- Joe **** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167

Re: Help needed ... :-(

2000-11-13 Thread Joe Ward
Well said, Bob -- -- Joe Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr4646 Hamilton Wolfe San Antonio, TX 78228-2402...San Antonio, TX

Re: [ap-stat] RE: election proposal

2000-11-13 Thread Joe Ward
Does anyone know WHY so many states DON'T DO IT THIS WAY? Perhaps the Political Science/History folks can comment. -- Joe **** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167

[ap-stat] Re: revote and Accuracy and Design of Voting Forms

2000-11-10 Thread Joe Ward
t; > > > The State of New Hampshire takes no responsibility for what this map > > > looks like if you are not using a fixed-width font such as Courier. > > > > > > "Opportunity

Re: [ap-stat] revote and Accuracy and Design of Voting Forms

2000-11-10 Thread Joe Ward
t; > > > The State of New Hampshire takes no responsibility for what this map > > > looks like if you are not using a fixed-width font such as Courier. > > > > > > "Opportunity

Re: 2 factor ANOVA with empty cells

2000-11-01 Thread Joe Ward
ation from a small study that might have missing cells "strategically located". - Joe **** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr

[ap-stat] Independent-Dependent Variable Discussion--Inverse Estimation

2000-10-20 Thread Joe Ward
ot;independent" variable and temperature as the "dependent" > variable." I have inserted some comments below: === Joe Ward writes == In the ancient past (1950s), for calibration studies -- Let Y be a reading from a measuring instrument, SUBJECT TO "ERRORS O

Independent-Dependent Variable Discussion--Inverse Estimation

2000-10-20 Thread Joe Ward
ot;independent" variable and temperature as the "dependent" > variable." I have inserted some comments below: === Joe Ward writes == In the ancient past (1950s), for calibration studies -- Let Y be a reading from a measuring instrument, SUBJECT TO "ERRORS O

Re: How to Pool Slopes

2000-10-08 Thread Joe Ward
Hi, Stan -- I've inserted a reply at the end of your message. Let me know how things turn out. -- Joe **** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhe

Re: How many Olympic Medals should Great Britain have won?

2000-10-03 Thread Joe Ward
Hi, Paige --   Good comments about "There are so many different factors..."     "To say that half the observations should have positive errors and halfshould have negative errors is to confuse median with mean."    I used the word ABOUT intentionally to distinguish from EXACTLY.   --Joe   ---

Re: How many Olympic Medals should Great Britain have won?

2000-10-02 Thread Joe Ward
ATIONALLY USEFUL MEANING?    --Joe ********Joe Ward.Health Careers High School167 East Arrowhead Dr4646 Hamilton Wolfe  San Antonio, TX 78228-2402...San Antonio, TX 78229Phone: 210-4

Re: What is today's Hogg & Craig?

2000-09-23 Thread Joe Ward
Hi, Gary, Jerry et al -- Here is a message from Bob Hogg. -- Joe - Original Message - From: "Robert V. Hogg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Fw: What is today's Hogg &

Re: cluster

2000-09-22 Thread Joe Ward
Anderberg, M.R. (1973) "Cluster Analysis for Applications" New York, Academic Press. --- Joe ******** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr.

Statistics for Visually Impaired

2000-09-18 Thread Joe Ward
awing sketches to understand statistics, but expect that tactic won't work with these students. Has anyone found effective ways of presenting statistical concepts to blind students? Jay Thomas - BOB BOTTENBERG REPLIES TO J

Re: How can I analyze split-design by SPSS v9.0?

2000-09-06 Thread Joe Ward
at is available. If you have time to take a look at the URL below, Slides 7 and 8 of the PowerPoint presentation on "Using Calculators and Computers in Statistics" - Laura Niland & Joe Ward, CAMT98 45th Annual Conference, San Antoni

Re: Regression books

2000-08-05 Thread Joe Ward
Copies of INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR MODELS by Ward and Jennings is available by contacting: Dr. Jimmy Mitchell The Institute for Job and Occupational Analysis (IJOA) 10010 San Pedro, Suite 440, San Antonio, Texas 78216 (210) 349-8525 Fax: (210) 349-0168 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bottenberg, R.A., & Wa

Re: Math Education of Mathematics Teachers

2000-08-01 Thread Joe Ward
ession 281, Thursday, Aug. 17 10:30 a.m. - 12:30. -- Joe **** **** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr4646 Hamilton Wolfe San Antonio, TX

Re: regression books?

2000-07-22 Thread Joe Ward
://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n3/ward.html -- Joe Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr4646 Hamilton Wolfe San Antonio, TX 78228

Re: bump hunting in nonlinear regression

2000-07-18 Thread Joe Ward
OUTSIDE your RANGE OF INTEREST. -- Joe ******** Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr4646 Hamilton Wolfe San Antonio, TX 78228-2402...San Antonio, TX 78229 Phone: 210-433-6575.

Re: bivariate normality and correlation

2000-07-10 Thread Joe Ward
concerned about RESTRICTION OF RANGE it became obvious to me that the correlation coefficient should be used with EXTREME CAUTION. -- Joe Joe Ward.Health Careers High School 167

Re: Novice questions about regression analysis.

2000-06-28 Thread Joe Ward
aged COVARIANCE algorithms" still assume NO INTERACTION? Does SAS (or other stat packages) warn us when there is a "missing cell" in an ANOVA-LIKE GLM computation? -- Joe ****** Joe Ward

Re: Novice questions about regression analysis.

2000-06-28 Thread Joe Ward
u may not "pass". -- Joe ****** Joe WardHealth Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr. 4646 Hamilton Wolfe San Antonio, TX 78228-2402 San Antonio, TX 78229 Phone: 210-433-6575Pho

Re: Stupid question on relationship of r and t

2000-06-24 Thread Joe Ward
Jason -- t^2 = r^2*(n-2) --- (1-r^2) is a special case of the more general case of using R^2 to compute the F statistic in a Prediction/Regression/Linear Models approach to research studies. Letting R^2(Assumed) = R^2 for the ASSUMED MODEL R^2(Restricted)= R^2

Re: differences between groups/treatments ?

2000-06-19 Thread Joe Ward
vestigate the INTERACTION between TEACHER and PRIOR PERFORMANCE. More later. -- Joe ****** Joe Ward Health Careers High School 167 East Arrowhead Dr. 4646 Hamilton Wolfe San Anto

Re: Beginner requests for help on ANOVA and T-tests (n SYSTAT97 --CAUTION)

2000-06-16 Thread Joe Ward
IS CORRECT. I'm sure that previous users must have mentioned this to the EXCEL REGRESSION folks. Perhaps no one cares. -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward * 167 East Arrowhead Dr. * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402 * Phone: 210-433-6575 * Fax: 210-433-2828 *

Re: Beginner requests for help on ANOVA and T-tests (n SYSTAT97 --CAUTION)

2000-06-15 Thread Joe Ward
frequently mention: "Using the statistical routines in Excel can be risky." Of course, ALL statistical packages should be used with caution. We have not had time to check on the Excel2000 to find out if it is still has the same problem. Keep in touch. -- JHW

Re: MANOVA

2000-06-14 Thread Joe Ward
If the 'ZERO' or 'DOT' means that you have some missing cells then that is a good time to "CREATE YOUR OWN MODEL". -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward * 167 East Arrowhead Dr. * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402 * Phone: 210-433-6575 * F

Re: Inequalities constrains on the coefficients

2000-06-08 Thread Joe Ward
I asked Lee Wilkinson how this is done in SYSTAT. Here is his reply. -- Joe * Joe Ward * 167 East Arrowhead Dr. * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402 * Phone: 210-433-6575 * Fax: 210-433-2828 * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.ijoa.org

Re: Inequalities constrains on the coefficients

2000-06-08 Thread Joe Ward
Lee Wilkinson indicates how this is done in SYSTAT. --- Joe -Original Message- From: Wilkinson, Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Joe Ward' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 08, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: RE: Inequalities constrains on the coefficients >Th

Re: Regression and Correlation (Was Correlation)

2000-05-20 Thread Joe Ward
* Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe* * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402San Antonio, TX 78229 * * Phone: 210-433-6575

Re: R sq vs r sq

2000-05-05 Thread Joe Ward
fusing. | > | >Cheers, | >Bill Larson | >Geneva, Switzerland | > | >- Original Message - | >From: Joe Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >To: William J. Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Paul Velleman | ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >

Re: R sq vs r sq

2000-05-05 Thread Joe Ward
EED to accomplish practical results -- leading to more enthusiasm for statistics and data analysis. Change is slow!! :-) -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead D

Re: R sq vs r sq

2000-05-05 Thread Joe Ward
f Y and X, but LINEAR in the 3D space of Y,X and Z", then we might even cause more frustration. :-( "COMMUNICATION" IS A PROBLEM EVERYWHERE! DO WILLIAM AND PAUL HAVE THE SAME MEANING FOR "NONLINEAR"? :-) --- Joe ****

Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

2000-05-04 Thread Joe Ward
ration. -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe* * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402San Antonio, TX 78229 * * Phone: 210-433-6575

STATISTICS AT ISEF2000- International Science & Engineering Fair -- Detroit May 7-13 --Summer Workshop in San Antonio

2000-05-04 Thread Joe Ward
iscuss details. --- Joe **** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe* * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402San Antonio, TX 78229

Re: hyp testing -Reply

2000-04-17 Thread Joe Ward
time there were less than 20 people who were Invertebrate Paleontologists. -- Joe **** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe

Re: linear model or interactive model?

2000-04-16 Thread Joe Ward
Good message, Alan -- As you indicate, the model is LINEAR in the coefficients b0, b1, b2, b3 and in the 4-D space of y,x1,x2,x3(i.e., x1*x2) the function lies in a PLANE. But in the 3-D space of y,x1,x2 the surface is TWISTED ( not in a PLANE). -- Joe - Original Message - From: Alan Mc

Re: linear model or interactive model?

2000-04-15 Thread Joe Ward
l space of Y-X-X^2. With 3-D displays that we can rotate as we would like, it is enlightening to observe that the CURVE seen in the two-dimensional space lies in a PLANE in the three-dimensional space of Y-X-X^2. -- Joe ********

Re: linear model or interactive model?

2000-04-13 Thread Joe Ward
= c1 X1 + c2 X2, | where c1 and c2 are constant. I doubt it is not a pure interactive form, | since X.1 and X.2 are dependent. Sorry for this stupid question. | | Wen-Feng | ==== Joe Ward writes| === Wen-Feng--- Your

Re: hyp testing

2000-04-07 Thread Joe Ward
t; outcome? I imagine we will get some suggestions from our readers! :-) -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe

Reference for "regression discontinuity"

2000-03-22 Thread Joe Ward
dels appropriate to the research questions of interest, many seemingly-unique problems can be handled easily, e.g. Cubic Splines.    -- Joe * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167

Re: Matrix multiplication

2000-03-18 Thread Joe Ward
ts   This due to the different order of accumulation of the sum of products of numbers between 0 and 1.   Numerical analysts can have lots of challenging problems.   -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Hea

Re: Looking for text on resampling...

2000-03-17 Thread Joe Ward
Scott -- Peter Bruce  should be able to give us the latest "word". -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hami

Re: Why do we use and teach z?

2000-03-17 Thread Joe Ward
he exam might want to give your students some power to use Prediction/Regression/Linear Models and Computers. They might be able to do some useful data analysis and appreciate your efforts!!   Well, that's enough from a "NON-INFLUENTIAL OUTLIER".   -- Joe  

Re: When *must* use weighted LS?

2000-03-15 Thread Joe Ward
.   -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe    ** San Antonio, TX 78228-2402    San Antonio, TX 78229  ** Phone: 210-433-6575   Phone: 21

Re: Cluster and outliers

2000-03-12 Thread Joe Ward
AdministrationUniversity of Illinois at Chicago601 S. Morgan StreetChicago, IL 60607-7124www.uic.edu/~slsclove Have fun!!   --Joe **** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhea

Re: Repeated measures

2000-03-09 Thread Joe Ward
to answer.     Be careful -- especially if there may be "missing cells".   :-) --Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Ha

Fw: other uses for Minitab

2000-03-06 Thread Joe Ward
or hyper-plane seems tobe more appealing than taking partial derivatives.  Connecting "perpendicularity" to"orthogonality" seems to work well. -- Joe******** * Joe Ward

Fw: other uses for Minitab

2000-03-06 Thread Joe Ward
or hyper-plane seems tobe more appealing than taking partial derivatives.  Connecting "perpendicularity" to"orthogonality" seems to work well. -- Joe******** * Joe Ward

Re: Howto interpret interactions in an ANOVA

2000-02-29 Thread Joe Ward
s with AVERAGES, MEANS, GPAs.  And the "Missing Cells Problem?" is really not a problem until the students are told that some folks don't know what to do about "Missing Cells".   Enough "preaching to the choir"!!   --Joe     **

Re: Linear Regression with known intercept (Long Message)

2000-02-14 Thread Joe Ward
Mark writes -   - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 4:51 PMSubject: Linear Regression with known intercept| Hi,| | If I want to find the least squares estimator of the slope of a simple| linear regress

Re: ANN vs. nonlinear regression: forecasting

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Ward
ll be interested in what you learn.   -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe    ** San Antonio, TX 78228-2402    San Antonio, TX 78229  ** Phone: 210-433-65

Re: adjusting marks; W. Edwards Deming

2000-02-09 Thread Joe Ward
  Good comment, Robert --   Perhaps the unidentified writer is a frustrated product of "Non-mastery" Spelling Education and is intentionally (or unintentionally) showing the results.   See BOLD items below.    -- Joe ********

Re: Looking for text on resampling...

2000-02-06 Thread Joe Ward
Scott -- Peter Bruce is the contact!!! -- Joe - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:08 PM Subject: Looking for text on resampling... | Our small college library has a collection of basic biostats texts but | nothin

Re: Course Curriculum

2000-02-04 Thread Joe Ward
se who can help.   -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe    ** San Antonio, TX 78228-2402    San A

Fw: CORRECTION TO EARLIER MESSAGE-Correlation - Constraints on Variables

2000-01-05 Thread Joe Ward
it should read "a2=0" :-( -- Joe - Original Message - From: Joe Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bkamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: APSTAT-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: Correlation - Constraints on

Re: Correlation - Constraints on Variables

2000-01-04 Thread Joe Ward
, Ph.D., Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10010 San Pedro, Suite 440, San Antonio, Texas 78216 (210) 349-8525 Fax: (210) 349-0168 --- Joe * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrow

Re: Factor analysis

2000-01-02 Thread Joe Ward
educe the number of predictors, then you should NOT use factor scores but use regression models.   -- Joe ******** * Joe Ward  Health Careers High School ** 167 East Arrowhead Dr   

Re: grading on the curve

1999-12-23 Thread Joe Ward
^^ Joe ******** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe * * San Antonio, TX 78228-2402San Antonio, TX 78229 * * Phone: 21

Re: teaching statistical methods by rules?

1999-12-20 Thread Joe Ward
mple: The critical-value of t for probability of p = .05 at t(18) = 1.734 The critical-value of F for probability of p = .10 at F(1,18) = (1.734)^2 = 3.01 :-) -- Joe ********

Re: Prediction Model Question

1999-12-16 Thread Joe Ward
nterested in seeing the models that your student develops to investigate his/her OWN QUESTIONS OF INTEREST!! :-) -- Joe ** * Joe Ward Health Careers High School * 167 East Arrowhead Dr 4646 Hamilton Wolfe

Re: could someone help me with this intro to stat. problem

1999-12-08 Thread Joe Ward
-- | Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 348 Hyde Hall, Plymouth State College, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | MSC #29, Plymouth, NH 03264 603-535-2597 | 184 Nashua Road, Bed

Re: Coefficient of Determination Question

1999-12-08 Thread Joe Ward
ing a name to (1-r^2) then why not call it the "coefficient of non-determination". But "one minus r square" is about as easy to say as "coefficient of non-determination". -- Joe * Joe Ward

Re: could someone help me with this intro to stat. problem

1999-12-08 Thread Joe Ward
RESTRICTED MODELS to HELP make decisions about the questions of interest. Hopefully, (Luv 2 muah 143) is being provided the opportunity to do the above!! Reasonably talented high school students should be given to power to do this. :-) --- Joe * Joe

Re: ancova

1999-12-05 Thread Joe Ward
alue could be obtained? | | thanks | -- | 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park, PA 16802 | AC 814-863-2401Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm | FAX: AC 814-863-1002 JOE WARD COMMENTS --- Hi, Denni

Re: categorical or numerical

1999-12-04 Thread Joe Ward
ategories?) And on the other hand we may have "SCORES" on a 100-point scale. but someone might desire to have some "LETTERS". So we may Let 90-100 = A 80-89 = B 70-79 = C 60-69 = D 00-59 = F :-) -- Joe **

Re: sets of values

1999-11-29 Thread Joe Ward
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Re: Need to evaluate difference between two R's

1999-11-24 Thread Joe Ward
-making in the real world. However, there are still some folks who are adjusting correlation coefficients for "restriction of range" in hopes that it might be useful. -- Joe * Joe Ward Health Careers High

Re: blocking for variation/confounding

1999-01-16 Thread Joe Ward
TROL IT -- MEASURE IT AND PUT IT IN THE MODEL. In addition, if their future research leads to an interest in the possible INTERACTION (a special term associated with question #3 above) between attributes, then the attributes MUST BE MEASURED AND INCLUDED IN THE MODEL. And the sermon come