Re: Statistics Tool For Classification/Clustering

Good places to start: Optimal feature extractors, that's better than PCA because you whiten your inter class scatter and so put all inter class comparisons on the same level. The good thing is this will also reduce your feature vector dimensionality to c-1 (where c is # classes). PCA will not do

Re: Statistics Tool For Classification/Clustering

Corection typo: Should read 'Whiten intra class scatter' "Mark Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:FIif8.16518$[EMAIL PROTECTED].; > Good places to start: > > Optimal feature extractors, that's better than PCA because you whiten your &g

Reviewers Needed for Progress in Transplantation

The editor of Progress in Transplantation is needing biostatisticians for reviewers. If you are interested, see below. Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED

REQ: Appendix A. of Radford Neal thesis: "Bayesian Learning for Neural Networks"

l one. It's an anty-spam measure. I apologize for any inconvenience that it causes to you. A lot of thanks, regards, mark lin. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE

panel data - fixed effects

s on my desk on stats and econometrics and none give me clear guidance Many thanks Mark = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at

new VB teaching list

For those who also teach programming, there is a new teaching list for vb and other programming languages. To subscribe go to http://trugeek.com/lists/ When you click on subscribe, it will create an email to subscribe you. Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information

Re: Z Scores and stuff

and I would be interested in other responses to > this query. . . . Thanks for this. I want to rewrite this in C so I can compile it for the Palm Pilot. What language is it in currently? Thanks, Mark = Instructions for joining and l

Re: Reply to John Kane

On 10 Nov 2001 20:57:15 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John, > > I stand corrected. I really guess I misunderstood what Mark wanted. > > I now realize he is an experienced programmer. Hmm, I didn't say that :o) But I can certainly manipulate numbers, variables and

Re: Z Scores and stuff

o, and perhaps a cloak of invisibility? You are being ridiculous. All I want to know is if there exists an equation to work out the things I have said. Clearly there is, otherwise we would not have the tables of z-scores. > > I am reminded of the time, years ago, ... This is irrelevant. You are obviously well educated in the field of statistics, so if you have a helpful reply I would like to hear it. Otherwise please don't reply. Mark = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

Re: Z Scores and stuff

On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:13:21 -0500 Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:31:57 +0000, Mark T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > What are the formulae for calculating the mean to z, larger proportion and smaller >p

false positives when testing for anthrax

about Type I and Type II errors in class. Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Instructions for joining

non stat question: existance of educational programming list?

Besides teaching statistics, I have been teaching programming recently. I know there exists a Visual Basic list but does anyone know of a list similar to this one but for teaching programming? Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University

Re: web page to help use normal table

be asked using one or two z values. I appreciate Dennis's comments and will try to add more explanation to the page. Mark Eakin On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Cantor wrote: > I did not try to examine your work thoroughly but at the very beginning I > try to count P(z1 about z2?

web page to help use normal table

feedback. Dr. Mark Eakin Informations Systems and Operations Management University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas 76019 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of

variance estimation and cross-validation

) are small. Is there a better way? Is there any way to establish a confidence interval on the estimate? Thanks Mark Mark Everingham Phone: +44 117 9545249 Room 1.15 Fax: +44 117 9545208

variance estimation and cross-validation

) are small. Is there a better way? Is there any way to establish a confidence interval on the estimate? Thanks Mark Mark Everingham Phone: +44 117 9545249 Room 1.15 Fax: +44 117 9545208

Standard deviation/confidence interval help.

ve any questions, particularly technical ones, about casino "secrets", feel free to ask. There really isn't too much that is secret. Mark Solberg = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the probl

Re: biserial rank correlations with SPSS oder SAS?

SPSS has a point biserial FAQ at: http://www.spss.com/tech/answer/result.cfm?tech_tan_id=10107 for rank biseral you might try posting the question on the SPSSX-L list which you can find info for at: http://www.spss.com/tech/listserves.html#SPSS HTH, Mark In article <[EMAIL PROTEC

ref needed for modeling with sparse data

Does anyone have a reference for regression model-building with sparse data? Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED

testing if classifier accuracy differs significantly

looking at individual questions rather than just taking the overall number of correct responses. Anyone have any comments/ideas? Thanks in advance Mark Mark Everingham Phone: +44 117 9545249 Room 1.15

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

In sci.stat.edu Petr Kuzmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Mark Glickman, the original poster, said that he is : "mystified" by my position that $5000 / semester is not adequate. This is completely untrue - I said I was mystified at the negative reactions to my original article,

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

ld have needed to grade them at the rate of :> one per every 1.5 minutes --- hardly enough time to even *read* them, :> let alone effectively comment on any errors in them !!! :-( : I think Mark is interested in "efficient" lectureship, not necessarily : in effective pedagogy. From

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

In sci.stat.edu Petr Kuzmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Mark Glickman wrote: :> :> The Boston Univ Department of Mathematics and Statistics is :> seeking a part-time temporary lecturer to teach an :> introductory statistics class in the Fall. Responsibilities :> include

part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

. --- Classes begin on Sept 5, and end on Dec 12. The final exam for the course will be held on Dec 19 at 3pm. The textbook for the course is Moore and McCabe's "Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 3rd ed." Please contact Prof. Mark G

Re: Help: Batch Statistical Graphing Script Language

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Help: Batch Statistical Graphing Script Language

e prefered. Thank you very much, Mark W. Humphries --- Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com. Up to 100 minutes free! http://www.keen.com = Instructions for j

Q: conditional probability

(Ri,F) =P(Li|Rj,F)P(Ri,Fi) ...? Knowing that P(Li|F)=P(Li|Fi) can I simplify P(Li|Rj,F) further? Mark -- Mark Everingham Phone: +44 117 9545249 Room 1.15 Fax: +44 117 9545208 Merchant

EpiData - An EpiInfo based data-entry, checking, and documentation system for Microsoft Windows

; of EpiData is available as a Windows help file from the WWW site: http://www.bola.suite.dk/epidata The program is being developed as a collaboration between Jens Lauritsen, Michael Bruus and Mark Myatt with financial support from Funen County and the Danish Data Archives in Denmark and Br

Benford (New Post) --- some confusion

scale (base) unbiased way". ... assuming a good source of uniform deviates. Cheers, Mark ---- Mark R Diamond Vision Research Laboratory The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 AUSTRALIA nospam email: markd

Benford's law and simulation

niform deviates? ---- Mark R Diamond Vision Research Laboratory The University of Western Australia Nedlands WA 6907 AUSTRALIA nospam email: markd at psy dot uwa dot edu dot au Disclaimer: The views expre

no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

Besides independent normal errors with mean zero and constant variance, some (many?) econometric text books do make the assumption that the independent variables are uncorrelated. For example see Gujarti, Damodar (1988), _Basic Econometrics 2nd edition_, McGraw Hill, p. 166 Mark

needed references for Hierarchical Poisson Regression

I would appreciate any references anyone can give me on Hierachical Poisson Regression. Thanks Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED

Suggestions for book of probability exercises?

Fundamentals of Probability" by Ghahramani), but students have asked me if I could recommend a supplementary book of exercises with solutions from which they could practice problem solving. I think having access to such a book would be a great help for students. Much appreciation in advan

needed neural net program in fortran

Does anyone know of a freeware neural net program in fortran? I have seen one in a book but it was written in C++ and I did not want to have to translate. Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL

Re: ANN vs. nonlinear regression: forecasting

in of thinking. It worth a look. I have seen a number of papers around the subject of NN and Time Series. Go to http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~gks/webguide/index.html its an excellent site and should help you in explorer the web for this question Cheers Mark Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rich Ulrich &l

consulting services for graduate students?

from their committee members and fellow students. My only concern would be the amount of assistance provided and the inclusion of appropriate citation(s). But for me this leads to the question of how much is too much? Any comments? Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and

grades approximated by multinomial?

As an example in class, I was considering using the letter grade distribution in class as an example of an approximate multinomial distribution. How close do you feel this approximation is? Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University

Re: Difference of means: please ignore prior repost

Many thanks Mark Diamond markd at psy dot uwa dot edu dot au

Difference of means: please ignore prior repost

And a *third* time to correct my editing errors in the previous reply . . . Rich Ulrich wrote in message ... >On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:34:53 +0800, "DIAMOND Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >Well, Mr Noname@noname, since I can't write to an address. >And I w

Re: Difference between means

Rich Ulrich wrote in message ... >On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:34:53 +0800, "DIAMOND Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >Well, Mr Noname@noname, since I can't write to an address. >And I will follow an example that I read lately and say that I don't >feel kindly

Re: adjusting marks

't we teach our Ph.D. students how to use measurement theory in the area that of measuring that they will practice most often: measuring student performance? Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences Department University of Texas at Arlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adjusting marks

Dennis Roberts writes: > > third ... usually, "curving" means lowering the cutoffs ... that were > established at the beginning of a course (maybe in the syllabus) if > that is the case ... then there is NO statistical rationale for this ... > simply, your "gut" feeling that not enough st

Difference between means

I have a problem which, in the end, comes down to making an inference about a difference between means, but it seems more complicated than any example I can find in Croxton's Applied General Statistics or Sach's Applied Statistics: Handbook of techniques. Subjects make dichotomous judgements, cod

teaching statistical methods by rules?

s from the presentation. These student-developed rules may or may not be valid. I would be intested in reading what other faculty say about rule-based teaching depending on whether you teach theory or methods classes. Mark Eakin Associate Professor Information Systems and Management Sciences

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