William B. Ware said on 10/5/01 8:58 AM:
I don't think I understand your argument... Are you saying that the
descriptive statistic should be invariant over scale?
Anyway, more to the point... the add one is an old argument based on the
notion of real limits. Suppose the range of scores is 50
jeff rasmussen said on 9/19/01 11:36 AM:
Voltolini wrote:
Hi, I am biologist teaching statistics for biologists and I am
very interested in to learn more about teaching strategies
when the students hate numbers (like biologists!).
One thing I recently did was divide the class
that the observed census is just one particular
outcome taken from a theoretical pool of possible outcomes, then
statistical test is still possible.
Paul Bernhardt
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Reg Jordan wrote on 11/10/00 10:51 AM:
It's interesting that no Republicans have claimed that the ballot was
misleading -- all the complaints seem to come from Democrats. Wouldn't the
"misleading, confusing" nature of the ballot apply equally across the
voting spectrum?
Bush was listed first
the equal
variances t-test because there is insufficient evidence on which to base
a decision to use the unequal variance t-test.
Paul Bernhardt, M.S.
University of Utah
Dept. of Ed Psychology
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Thom Baguley wrote on 5/4/00 3:41 AM:
Donald F. Burrill wrote:
(1) The house ALWAYS has the statistical advantage. Else it wouldn't
include that game among its offerings. (Agreed, this is oversimple...)
The only exception is successful card counting - however card counting is
pretty hard
Anda1man wrote on 4/29/00 4:35 PM:
Next time I play, I think I will ALWAYS refuse a card in cases where I
could go bust (my first two cards being over 11). If it works, I will let the
group know.
That is the essence of most playing strategies that minimize the house
advantage. When a
Donald F. Burrill wrote on 4/27/00 2:38 PM:
partly because
in the case of a tie the Dealer wins (if I remember correctly),
A couple of people have said this. It is not true at all tables. I've
played in Reno and Wendover, Nevada. Both places ties are 'pushes', money
doesn't change hands.
problem which raises a question I think many statiticians face,
how to explain when someone has conducted data mining and when they might
have sussed out a valid truth.
Paul Bernhardt
University of Utah
Department of Educational Psychology
Brian E. Smith wrote on 3/23/00 1:01 AM:
I am trying to formulate a calculator policy in a department that currently
allows any calculator except "those capable of storing text". That rules
out all of the graphing calculators since they have alphanumeric
capability. I use a TI-83 or TI-86 in
This is still another post from November of 1997 on sci.stat.consult
detailing my objections to over-interpreting any change in sign of
correlations (polarizations is what Chambers calls them) over the data
set.
Recovered via dejanews.
Paul
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Horst Kraemer wrote on 2/27/00 9:04 PM:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:17:13 -0600, "William Chambers"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am sure you feel almost like a real doctor (MD).
Listen to me little man.
Now grow up and have a conversation with me. How in the world do people
like you get jobs
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