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>I understand you concern about spam but without
>identifying yourself it is difficult to take any of you
>comments very seriously.
It is also difficult to take seriously any comments
containing grammar such as your own; but the topic of this
Newsgroup is statistics, n
Dennis Roberts wrote about Herman's pronouncement:
>he takes the position that no one can benefit from
>any intro stat courses ... which we know is a silly
>position to take
It's worse than silly: it's false.
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Robert C. Knodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It might be more polite to show your name
>and/or address to identify yourself
>when sending comments to the mailing list.
It might and/or might not be, and that was once my
practice; but after receiving more than enough spam and
unwelcome e-mail fo
Herman Rubin wrote:
>anyone wanting to learn good statistics should not even
>consider taking an "undergraduate" statistics course
Nonsense.
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Mark Solberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've had some statistics coursework, probably just enough to be dangerous.
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>Here's my problem. By the way this is an actual problem, not theoretical.
>I need to analyze the hold percentage on certain table games in the casino I
>work at.
I should think
Herman Rubin wrote:
>The Brownian motion here is one-dimensional.
See chapter 17 (Brownian Motion of a galvanometer),
"Thermodynamics", Francis Weston Sears (Addison-Wesley).
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Vincent Granville wrote:
>The problem is to find the (parametric?) distribution of
>the ratio low/high in connection with Brownian motions.
>The application I have in mind is daily low/high or 52-week
>low/high for any particular stock price.
Brownian motions are usually described as having a
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burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It seems like I read once that a characteristic of a
>Poisson arrival pattern at a waiting line facility is that
>there will be long periods of no or few arrivals followed
>by periods of many arrivals. Can anyone refer me to a
>reference that discusses this charac
David A. Heiser wrote:
>>>Second, one needs to read Fisher's insight into Bayes original work to
>>>understand Fisher's view of probability.
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>> The only discernable connection between Bayes original work and Fisher's
>> view of probability is that they are both discussed in Chapter 2 of his
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David A. Heiser wrote:
>von Mises criticizes Fisher (1921) for his introduction of the term
>"likelihood" without defining it, since in common usage, 'likelihood'
>and 'probability" have the same meaning.
Fisher may have addressed this issue in the preface to the thirteenth
edition of his book,
Tarjei Knapstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a random variable X normally distributed with known mean and
>standard deviation, say, X~N(2, 0.5). If I make two samples from this
>distribution, how do I find the probability of the absolute difference
>between these samples being larger than a
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