outliers

2002-02-22 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
treatment affects one's distractability.  If that is the case, then removing outliers amounts to removing an effect of your treatment. Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC  27858-4353Voice:  252-328-4102 Fax:  252-328-6283[EMAIL

Distance Education in Statistics

2002-02-16 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
, please advise me.  Thanks.   Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC  27858-4353Voice:  252-328-4102 Fax:  252-328-6283[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm

shrimp statistics

2002-02-08 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
the weight of the shrimp I ate and the weight of the shrimp reserved for my spouse?  Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC  27858-4353Voice:  252-328-4102 Fax:  252-328-6283[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm

Fw: I Hack Into Your Paypal Account!

2002-01-23 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
That is the most amusing post I have seen here in quite a while. Thanks, Steven. PS -- I have a virtual snippet of Steven Lee's hair and a voodoo doll in his likeness. All those $50 payments should be wired to me or Steven will find himself having sharp pains with no apparent cause. ;-) - O

When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
potential causal explanations of the observed correlation between X and Y must include models that involve additional variables and which differ with respect to which events are causes and which effects. Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC 

Re: Who said "Correlation does not imply causation".

2001-12-04 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
ion does not imply causation". > Hi > > On 3 Dec 2001, Karl L. Wuensch wrote: > > I think that phrase has created much misunderstanding. I try > > to convince my students that correlation is necessary but not > > sufficient for establishing a causal relati

Re: Who said "Correlation does not imply causation".

2001-12-03 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
I think that phrase has created much misunderstanding.  I try to convince my students that correlation is necessary but not sufficient for establishing a causal relationship. Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC  27858-4353Voice:  252-328

Re: Continuity corrections for normal approximations

2001-11-03 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
DF results in a much better approximation when n is small, but that as n grows the difference between the corrected estimate and the noncorrected estimate becomes trivial.   Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC  27858-4353Voice:  252-328-4102 Fax

eigenvalue: origin of term

2001-01-20 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
    Can any of you all enlighten me regarding the origin of the term "eigenvalue."  Is it related to the German word "eigen?" +++++++++Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology,East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353Voice: 252-3

Re: What's type III?

2000-11-20 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
ersus "parameter GT value." ++++++++ ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm ===

Re: What's type III?

2000-10-31 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
, thus this error is not a Type I error. ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc

replication of "significant" results

2000-10-21 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
r of the society sends, along with a check, even if it goes against the Zeitgeist). ++++++++++++ ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm =

correlation/regression and causation

2000-10-21 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
duate students have told me that that is what they were taught as undergraduates. ++++++++ ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm ==

Re: Odd description of LSD approach to multiple comparisons

2000-10-18 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
uot; (between means to be "significant" at an adjusted criterion of significance) for any of the paranoid alpha-adjustment procedures: Fisher's, Bonferroni, Tukey a or b, Newman-Keuls, REGWQ, etc. ++++++++ ++ Karl L.

.05 level of significance

2000-10-18 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
-558. ++++++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm = Instructions for joi

important failures to reject a nil hypothesis

2000-10-18 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
in one direction (in which case the effect is 'significant'), then we know that the effect is of trivial magnitude. ++++++++ ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 278

Re: memorizing formulas

2000-10-09 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
I think that Bob Hayden is on to something essential here ("I noted that Karl presented all the understandings he sought verbally on the list. Why not do the same in class?"). I think of the "definitional formulae" just as a convenient shorthand for the verbal definition of a construct. But it m

Re: datasets w/equal R^2???

2000-09-20 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
These data can be found, with SAS code to describe them, at the bottom of my CorrRegr program on the page at: http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/SAS/SAS-Programs.htm ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East

Re: Skewness and Kurtosis Questions

2000-08-28 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
it is more related to "fat-tailedness." ++++++++ ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: interval or ordinal scale?

2000-08-26 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
. ++ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm

Shapiro-Wilks

2000-06-06 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
ance, then you would reject the null hypothesis that the data are a sample from a normally distributed population... ------- Karl L. Wuensch, Professor, Graduate Faculty, Director of Psychology/Social Work Computer Labs

Y2K and computer clocks

2000-01-07 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
blems displaying the year 2000 date, but a patch from microsoft took care of that. And I needed to upgrade my Netscape to avoid minor problems associated with an expired certificate. Karl L. Wuensch, Professor, Graduate Faculty, Director of Psychology/Social Work Computer Labs Dep

interaction plots

1999-11-24 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
oes up, a "monotonic" interaction. However, from the other perspective, this interaction is "nonmonotonic": Changing A from level 1 to level 2 is associated with an increase in the mean if we look only at the B1 column, but a decrease in the mean if we look only at the B2