> All IMHO, feedback appreciated.
Dennis,
Frequentist statistics, unlike Bayesian statistics, only allows a hypothesis
to be true or false.
Frequentist test figures quantify the test -- under repeated trials -- rather
than the sample (or the population from which it came). So the p-values indic
Ken K. wrote:
> Like I said, everyone has different needs, backgrounds, etc.
>
> The main point is to acquire the demos and try the software!! Pick the one
> you like best for your needs.
You may also want to look at the communities addressing similar problems
to your own. They may well be produ
dennis roberts wrote:
> there just is no good way to argue against the original choice C ... IN THE
> CONTEXT OF THE STEM OF THE QUESTION
I am reminded of the joke article that contains many `pollitically incorrect'
answers to the exam question "given a barometer how do you measure
the hight of
Rich Ulrich wrote:
> Computers do better than experts in making medical
> diagnoses when the correct answer has to be from a narrow set.
I think that some of the early systems also were better than humans
at identifying the possibility of unusual diagnoses. AFAIR it took the
humans to reach a fi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Since the vote difference between Bush and Gore falls within the margin
> of error for the counting process, declaring the winner is
> mathematically indeterminable within any reasonable degree of
> scientific confidence.
>
> Since we cannot know who has won, the Florid
Fred Galvin wrote:
> There is nothing *wrong* with "undervote" ballots. Voters are not
> required to vote on every office and every question on the ballot.
> Probably, *most* people who vote don't fill out their ballots
> completely. Voters who choose not to vote for any of the candidates
> for p
Bill Jefferys wrote:
> For reversible jump MCMC on models with varying numbers of parameters, I
> have found the paper by Dellaportas, Forster and Ntzoufras to be
> unusually useful...Dellaportas P., Forster J.J., Ntzoufras I. (2000). On
> Bayesian Model and Variable Selection Using MCMC. To app
Paul W. Jeffries wrote:
> TeX and LaTeX
> Some found these difficult to learn.
> One Windows interface is WinTeX, http://www.tex-tools.de/main.html
[La]Tex seemed to far from the original request's world for me to mention.
However if it's a real option also take a look at LyX - a graphical fron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You could of course have the voters choose which people will be elected
> from each party, instead of letting the parties rank their candidates
> on a list. This is how it works in Finland.
Sounds interesting.
How many members of parliament are there in Finland?
How m
Anon. wrote:
> H
>
> > But do not rush to a proportional system. It can have very
> > bad consequences, as can be seen from Israel and Italy, and
> > which was the case in France until de Gaulle reformed the
> > structure of the government.
> >
> It works fine in Scandinavia. The Swedish People
Thom Baguley wrote:
> Herman Rubin wrote:
> > The UK has effective disenfrachisement of most of the
> > members of its Liberal party. Also, the US was definitely
> > set up NOT to be "democratic"; the British democracy has
> > greatly eroded the rights the people won in the Bill of
> > Rights an
T.S. Lim wrote:
> I'm attempting to compile an online list of the fundamental differences
> between our field Statistics and Data Mining. Several online references
> that touch on the topic include
>
>http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~jhf/ftp/dm-stat.ps
>http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations
Rich Ulrich wrote:
> I don't think that ANY re-vote is pragmatically feasible.
Agreed.
> Anyway, ignoring the 19,000 double-punched ballots
In an ideal world, a pragmatically defensible option would
be to split the double-punched votes resulting from the poor
[and illegal?] ballot paper desi
Herman Rubin wrote:
> Those who voted for Bush
> and so push harder on the punch to make sure that it
> went all the way through.
A related interpretation is that those who were voting Gore
were less certain that they had chosen the right hole, so pressed
less positively. [They would have be
Tony Rizzo wrote:
> Your observations are correct. But the solution that you mention does
> not
> apply to the problem that I describe. The technology is not lacking.
> It is the understanding that is lacking, in management.
>
> So, my question remains. If the problem is that most managers and
Alexander Tsyplakov wrote:
> I have several questions.
>
> Is it possible to "give a detailed overview of statistical
> models for regression and classification" in two-day course?
>
> What do you mean by "Modern Regression and Classification"?
> May be it's better to call this "Some Methods in R
David A. Heiser wrote:
> I am going to reference Fisher as his views later on in life in the 1973 3rd
> edition of "Statistical
> Methods and Scientific Inference"
>
> "The Mathematical Likelihood assignable to every value of the unknown
> parameter p supplies a zoning of the admissible range o
You might want to look at AVAS (Additivity and Variance Stabilising
Regression).
As part of a regression process it finds transformations which may
go a long way towards solving your problem.
Peter
> Eric Turkheimer schrieb:
> >
> > I am interested in whether there is a literature on variance
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 8lalui$655$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8lalui$655$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> SAS seems
> > to be the only program that is flexible enough to run on unix and be
> > automated. I would prefer a more simplistic approach as there is _a
> > lot_ of overhead in startin
David A. Heiser wrote:
> First of all Fisher is a very ponderous writer, very difficult to find the
> gold in the pile of ore.
> Second, one needs to read Fisher's insight into
> Bayes original work to understand Fisher's view of probability.
Can you supply a reference? All Fisher's writings o
Susanne Muigg wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> now I'm about to finish my thesis, but still looking for some literature
> about the advantages and disadvantages of a (student) convenience sample,
> which I had used. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything, even if I've done
> quite an extensive literature
Neil W. Henry wrote:
> A book that you might find useful is not a statistics book, and it is out
> of print, but here is the title and author:
> Casual groups of monkeys and men; stochastic models of elemental social
> systems
>by Joel E. Cohen
9 copies currently availlable via the exce
Patrick Lee wrote:
> Hello;
> I am doing a general search for the types of statistical methodologies
> specific to the field
> of genetics. Does anyone know of any good texts,journals, or web pages
> that would give
> me this information? Thank you.
You might try the newsgroup bionet.info-theory
DIAMOND Mark R wrote:
> Background: Theodore Hill showed, in a paper published in Statistical
> Science 1995, that if sequences of random variables $\{X\sb n\}$ are
> selected at random in a scale (base) unbiased way, then the mantissa
> distributions of the combined sample will converge to Benfo
brianv wrote:
> I finished two courses of statistics already. I am looking for a good book
> that is easy to study by myself during the summer. The level would be after
> the first two intro-stat classes, maybe like regression analyis... If
> anyone has any suggestion, I really appreciate.
>
C., Bayard, Paschall, III wrote:
> I am looking for a source of "portable staistics", i.e. techniques that
> are easy to remember and use, that can be applied without a calculator
> or software program or and do not need reference tables.
>
> Examples are: Tukey-Duckworth two sample test, and th
Jerry Dallal wrote:
> As Tukey has pointed out, the null hypothesis of no effect
> is not that we think there is no effect, but we are uncertain
> of the direction.
>
> I wish I knew more about Delany and its application.
> One problem, pointed out by David Salsburg, is that a
> substances that e
T.S. Lim wrote:
> In article <8d4f0o$g4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >I m looking for free Matlab programs wich perform bootstrap, jackknife &
> >cross-validation, for neural netorks and regression (MLP).
> >Does anybody can tell me where I can find it
Statistics Dept. Nat. Bk. Belgium wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a book by Tukey
> exploratory data analysis
> very good but maybe not suitable for a 2000 research student
A /much/ more readable overview is given in
Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics
Frederick Mosteller, John
DeLa wrote:
> Well, I suppose that when the sample is too big almost every
> relation will prove to be "significant". A lot of
> pseudo-relations will occur. It will become difficult to detect
> intermediate(1) variables or neutralise them because there will
> be many candidates - if not all the
DeLa wrote:
> I have been trying to explain to some co-workers that a sample
> can be too big.
> That is not very easy because it is contratictory to what
> intuition says.
>
> Can someone point me to some good arguments or literature?
> Or correct me if my assumption is wrong?
I can see that hu
There is a neat `trick' to generate high-quality random normal/Gaussian
numbers from pairs of unit random numbers. See
http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/
for a description of the algorithm.
Peter
ALPHONSE AMEY wrote:
> For Chernof Faces, see:
>
> Chernoff, H., (1973) "Using faces to represent points in K-dimensional space
>graphically",
> JASA, 68, 361-368.
>
> >>> Mike Wogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/17 2:45 PM >>>
> >
> > What are Chernoff faces?
The reference is well worth chasing up, a
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