Re: factor Analysis

2002-01-29 Thread Pedro . Valero-Mora
What you need is a program that makes biplots for principal components. ViSta, a freeware program, will do it for you. In facti, it includes examples of data about cars and the goal of the analysis is to visualize them in the space of the variables. Pedro > It's not so simple. You have to d

Re: anyone using datadesk ?

2001-11-23 Thread Pedro Valero
There is a demo versiĆ³n in DataDesk homepage. It is a very good program for dynamic graphics and statistics indeed. However, I use Lisp Stat and ViSta for these kind of things because I can expand the system. Pedro At 12:41 23/11/2001 -0400, kjetil halvorsen wrote: >A related question: I am us

Re: Transformation function for proportions

2001-10-17 Thread Pedro Valero
There is a whole family of transformations for proportions usually refered as the Lambda-Tukey. Arcsine, logit and probit are members of this family. Logarithms can also work well but only under some conditions. You may check the chapter of Emerson in the book about Exploratory analysis of Vari

Re: to frame or not frame

2000-05-17 Thread Pedro Valero
You might want to check the article: Why frames suck (most of the time) by Jacob Nielsen. Nielsen is one of the most famous gurus of the Human Computer Interaction field and wrote for several years a column about usability problems of the web. The URL for the paper is: http://www.useit.com/alertb

Transforming proportions

1999-12-17 Thread Pedro Valero
Hello, I have been programming some visual methods for transforming data using the BoxCox family of transformations (logs, squares,..) and the Folded Power (arcsin, logistic,...). I would like to get a good numerical example (with the history of the data, please) for aplying the second set of tra