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: 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

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