Analytic results are easier to obtain if one is willing to replace "mean
[absolute] distance" between balls by "root mean squared distance".
Then, in the abstracted situation, where points are distributed
uniformly in a cube with sides T, simple integration is all that is
needed. The answer is sur
h is lost when using ranks.
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> Any suggestions?
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> "It has often been remarked that an educated man has probably forgotten
> most of the facts he acquired in school and university. Education is what
> survives when what has been learned has been
out what is going on. Oh yes, P = .008.
> I have at this point lost all respect for someone who could make such offensive
> comments. Rubin has the reputation of being a caustic jerk, but this really
> takes the cake.
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Psychology and Life Sciences majors take a different course that uses David
Moore's Practice of Statistics.
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also be referring to "The Principal Components of Scale Analysis",
Chapter 9, in Measurement and Prediction, 1950, edited by Sam Stouffer. It was
reissued in paperback many years later.
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;accuracy" guides."
Rogosa is trying to point out the social implications of using
single-test criteria for graduation or promotion, when it is agreed that
the tests have less than perfect accuracy.
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> and then to apply it to my data. Unfortunatly after a lot of hard work
> Im beginning to understand when and why to use specific tests and
> analysis but to complicate everything further my data seems to defy the
> assumtins of every analyses I have read!!
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> Any furt
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Look again. Page 28:
"True understanding of any statistical technique resides at least as much
in the fingertips (be they caressing a pencil or poised over desk calculator or
card punch keys) as in the cortex."
Daddy, what's a desk calculator?
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First, forget the responses from Chen and Donovan. No laws are being
violated by adding these items, or any items, together. And traditional
psychometric methods of evaluating the "unidimensionality" of items are not
going to be very persuasive with only 4 items.
As PChawla pointed out, al
