Re: one-way ANOVA question

2002-02-13 Thread Mike Granaas
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Thomas Souers wrote: > > 2) Secondly, are contrasts used primarily as planned comparisons? If so, why? > I would second those who've already indicated that planned comparisons are superior in answering theoretical questions and add a couple of comments: 1) an omnibus test

Re: analyzing counts from ordered categories

2002-01-23 Thread Mike Granaas
n_endors /cells= count row column total/. > > If it is a perfect Guttman scale pattern will have only six values 0, > 1, 11000, 11100, 0, 1. > > hope this helps. > > Mike Granaas wrote: > > > HI all, > > > > Hoping someone can point me

Re: Buy Book on "Probability and statistical inference"

2002-01-14 Thread Mike
hia, There's been lots of stuff written about wireless communication channel models - see recent issues of IEEE Transactions on Communications and other similar journals. One place to start might be to look for books in the references of articles that describe wireless communication channels. --

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2001-12-07 Thread Mike
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Re: When does correlation imply causation?

2001-12-05 Thread Mike Granaas
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Karl L. Wuensch wrote: > > > So why is it that many persons believe that one can make causal inferences >with confidence from the results of two-group t tests and ANOVA but not with the >results of correlation/regression techniques. I believe that this delusio

Re: effect size/significance

2001-09-13 Thread Mike Granaas
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Dennis Roberts wrote: > see the article that focuses on this even if they do report effect sizes ... ) > > what we need in all of this is REPLICATION ... and, the accumulation of > evidence about the impact of independent variables that we consider to have > important poten

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2001-01-29 Thread Mike
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Re: p values

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Granaas
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, dennis roberts wrote: > > one of the summary points made is the following: > > "P values, or significance levels, measure the strength of the evidence > against the null hypothesis; the smaller the P value, the stronger the > evidence against the null hypothesis" I would

Re: Communicating stat results that are large or small numbers tolay audience

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Granaas
One of the Chance lectures (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance) from about 2 years ago spoke about this. The example I remember had to do with the safety of airtravel. Specifically the speaker translated the probability of dying in an airplane accident into "one flight per day for xxx years" (I t

Re: Excel Histograms

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
where there is very little data, and is really a ">x" bin. Cheers mike On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:29:25 +0100, in sci.stat.edu you wrote: > Once you have the labels, you can edit the graph and move everything around. > > > > > In addition, is there any way I can *join*

Excel Histograms

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
, is there any way I can *join* the last two bars together, so that they form one bar with the frequencies added together and is double the width of a single bar. Cheers Mike = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and

Six Sigma - Statistics

2000-09-16 Thread Mike. Cox
I recently heard that the popular management approach, Six Sigma, embodies 149(?) statistical tests. Is a copy of this list available? = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE

Re: interaction effects

2000-07-24 Thread Mike Hewitt
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interaction effects

2000-07-22 Thread Mike Hewitt
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Re: correlation coefficient for a curve fit equation

2000-06-02 Thread Mike Stephenson
t; wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > - Forwarded message from Mike Stephenson - > > I curve fit some data to the equation 1/y=a+bx using a set of x, y data. I > used the 1/y form in the curve fit because I could use a linear least > squares

Re: correlation coefficient for a curve fit equation

2000-06-01 Thread Mike Stephenson
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correlation coefficient for a curve fit equation

2000-05-31 Thread Mike Stephenson
er. Any takers? Mucho appreciated. Mike === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaste

help with frequency tables?

2000-05-24 Thread Mike Stiso
le to determine the optimal sample size for achieving a stable frequency table? And if so, can you point me in the right direction? Thanks very much for any help, Mike === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally,

homogeneity of variances

2000-05-12 Thread mike
seem to be the same as looking at the variance of a linear regression (does variance increase, decrease, or stay the same with increasing X values). Any suggestions? Thanks again. Mike === This list is open to everyone. Oc

normality and regression analysis

2000-05-11 Thread Mike
show there is a linear relationship? thanks in advance..Mike === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these

Re: Prediction of rare events

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Cantor
What sort of rare events are you trying to predict. Me, I am in the business of predicting motor vehicle crashes. It's very important to partition all of the variance that you can out of the dependent measure so that when the rare event occurs it will not be mixed up with events that look like t

Roy's Largest...What?

2000-05-01 Thread Mike and Michele Hewitt
Hope that got your attention:) Can anyone tell me the conditions for using Roy's Largest Root for multivariate repeated measures rather than the Pillai's, Wilks, or Hotelling's which may be "more conservative and perhaps less

the Quincunx

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Wogan
ng like the Japanese Pachinko, that could serve as a starting point. So my question is, does anybody know of a Quincunx program, and if so how would I find it/get a copy/ etc.?? I don't think I can take the time right now to write the program myself, and besides, there may be one already

Re: Sex ratio

2000-01-23 Thread Mike Wogan
ing from 50:50 is evidence for the existence of God. I'd think the argument would go the other way. God, being neat and compulsive like the rest of us, would show His perfection by approximating a 50/50 ratio? Or was Arbuthnott conflating God

Re: Favour requested

2000-01-22 Thread Mike Wogan
suring different things: system reports, system performance, and system access. If you average the three "satisfaction" measures and then correlate the resulting composite with "usage" you obscure rather than cl

Re: test statistic

2000-01-12 Thread Mike Wogan
amples. Why don't you do a Chi Square goodness of fit test, with the "hypothesized" values 50% for each glue? Mike

Re: repeated measures ANOVA + SPSS

2000-01-09 Thread Mike Wogan
Ole, It sounds to me like Male/Female is your between-subjects factors. In the Unix version of SPSS, this runs under MANOVA. But it sounds like you've got the same thing running in Windows. I think you're right about the repeated measures (within subjects) factor. Mike

Re: y2k confound

2000-01-07 Thread Mike Wogan
o worry about our gadgets failing. Then the anxieties take hold, and we got all the nonsense about planes crashing and food and water being unavailable. I suppose the only thing to do is view it with amusement. Mike

faculty opening

1999-12-29 Thread Mike Wogan
This ad for a faculty position appeared in the Monitor and Observer. If you know of anybody who might be qualified/ interested, won't you please share this information with them. Mike THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY--AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, CAMDEN CAMPUS: invites applications for an Assi

Re: ANOVA and normality

1999-12-29 Thread Mike Wogan
27;t "the answer" yet, and I'm sure others on this list will have more sophisticated suggestions than I, but I thought it would help to clear away some of the underbrush & facilitate the discussion. Mike ***

Re: valid grading? [ was: Re: adjusting marks]

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Wogan
Regarding Rich Ulrich's experience in grad school: Now *there's* a way to deal with tests of questionable validity: suppress the results! Maybe the department was being run by George W. Bush? Mike

Re: Software about spatial time series? (fwd)

1999-12-17 Thread Mike Wogan
A friend of mine in Economics wrote this in response to the question about time-series analysis: Mike -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:23:06 -0500 From: Jack Worrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mike Wogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Software about

Re: Software about spatial time series?

1999-12-16 Thread Mike Wogan
d "econometrics tool kit," but I'd have to check to be sure I have the right title for the program. I'll be interested to see what answers others give... Mike

Re: Scale Reliability

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Wogan
ight account for the drop in coef. alpha. Don't you have to be concerned with why the drop? (I'm assuming in the original scale the coef. alpha was relatively high, even if, in the original group, you only looked at these four items.) Mike

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

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Wogan
in the experiment (isn't there a non-reactive measure that could be used here instead?) I thought these were all important comments. But they get us further off into questions of experimental design, and the original question still hasn't been answered. So come on, guys and gals, which test is it? I want to know. Mike

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

1999-12-08 Thread Mike Wogan
Donald, I'm a firm believer in the effects of Maxwell's Demon. Mike

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

1999-12-08 Thread Mike Wogan
mixed model Anova, with Training vs. No Training as the between groups factor and Pre-Post as the within groups factor. Mike

Re: Correlated random numbers

1999-11-17 Thread Mike Wogan
Pardon my last, redundant message to Rich Strauss, regarding edStat-L, which has re-instated me for some reason. I thought his message had been posted to another list. M.W.

Re: Correlated random numbers

1999-11-17 Thread Mike Wogan
PROTECTED] that's edstat-L (not "one"). Drake Bradley, at Bates, has written a program for Experimental Psych which will generate *data* randomly, which conforms to certain limits (mean, s.d.), but I'm not sure his programs will do anything that complex. Mike

Re: Chernoff faces

1999-11-17 Thread Mike Wogan
Robert, What are Chernoff faces? Mike