Re: Buy Book on "Probability and statistical inference"

2002-01-14 Thread L.C.
You are clearly looking for an introductory text; otherwise your question would have been more specific. Since one of your groups is a math group, I conclude, rightly or wrongly, that you desire a mathematical treatment. You must be studying alone, or you would not need advice from the internet. Y

SAT Question Selection

2002-01-13 Thread L.C.
Back in my day (did we have days back then?) I recall talk of test questions on the SAT. That is, these questions were not counted; they were being tested for (I presume) some sort of statistical validity. Does anyone have any statistical insight into the SAT question selection process. Does anyo

Re: Evaluating students: A Statistical Perspective

2001-11-25 Thread L.C.
Donald Burrill wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, L.C. wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply! > > > > As for the iid, it's reasonable to believe the questions could be > > drawn from some population. Why not the answers? > > If the questions are selected in accor