Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Aniko wrote: ... On a related topic: I have always wondered about the correct pronunciation of Chebysev. In Russia I heard it as Chebi_shov_, with the accent at the end. It all reduces to the question of exact spelling in Russian: is the second vowel an "e" or "umlaut e" (the one with two

Re: .05 level of significance

2000-10-23 Thread Petr Kuzmic
mage files. Ah, the joys of website authoring... [;)] Hope this helps, - Petr Kuzmic _ P e t r K u z m i c, Ph.D. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] BioKin Ltd. * Software and Consulting http://www.

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

2000-08-15 Thread Petr Kuzmic
mwilliams wrote: Petr Kuzmic wrote: For you information, the base salary of a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin is about $33,000 per year with full benefits. That is a very low salary indeed! Do you mean that a person with a Ph.d who obtains a job as a lecturer (assistant

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

2000-08-09 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Oblomov wrote: Mark Glickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] By the way, $5000 salary for a course is quite competitive for teaching in the Boston area, so at least the market deems that our salary is fair, even if Petr doesn't. In fact, the $5000 salary is good for such positions! In

Re: pay scale

2000-08-08 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Bob Hayden wrote: - Forwarded message from Petr Kuzmic - $5000 - 25% federal + stat tax = $3750 16 week semester, that's $234/week after taxes How many hours in the week for a University lecturer: 3 hours / week in the classroom 6 hours / week preparing reviewing lecture

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

2000-08-08 Thread Petr Kuzmic
"Gordon D. Pusch" wrote: : 22 hour/week : Indeed it's a half time job (50% appointment, essentially). : So now, $234/week after taxes makes $10.60/hour. Interesting arithmetic... all of our part-time lecturers are efficient enough to spend no more than about 10 hours a week on a

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

2000-08-07 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Mark Glickman wrote: The Boston Univ Department of Mathematics and Statistics is seeking a part-time temporary lecturer to teach an introductory statistics class in the Fall. Responsibilities include lecturing three times per week (Mon, Wed and Fri 2:00-3:00pm), holding office hours,

Re: Non-linear curve fitting to time series

2000-08-04 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Charles Paxton wrote: [...] I have a curve of cumulative number of species over time (i.e. time, years in fact on x). For theoretical reasons I want to fit a two parameter rectangular hyperbola of the form Y=(A*X)/(B+X) where A and B are constants. [...] The problem is that as I see it

Re: nonlinear regression

2000-07-27 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Robert J Tamburo wrote: Anyone have any clue about nonlinear curve fitting. I'm trying to implement the Levenberg-Marquardt method in C++ from Numerical Recipes in C. I have it running, but it doesn't do as well a job as commercial software. Can someone suggest any tweaks to this method

Re: John Tukey

2000-07-26 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Donald Macnaughton wrote: John Wilder Tukey died last night The Collected Works of John W. Tukey ISBN / ISSN - 0412742403 Collected Works of John Tukey ISBN / ISSN - 0412063212 Collected Works of John W Tukey ISBN / ISSN - 0412051214 The Collected