Re: CIs for adjusted rates

2001-11-22 Thread Robert Chung
practices. --Robert Chung = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

Florida Election Review?

2001-11-22 Thread Robert Chung
of their findings. Was there a single final report? I'm not looking to re-start anything long or divisive. I'm just looking for a reference to something that pulled together findings. --Robert Chung = Instructions for joining and leaving

Re: Regression to the mean,Barry Bonds HRs

2001-09-18 Thread Robert Chung
in a different ballpark than before. I've never said that Barry's HRs are entirely due to playing in Pac Bell (though I do remind you that he's hit 31 there so far this year). My main point was and still is that the Slate author used RTM in a sloppy way. That's what I meant by cavalier. --Robert Chung

Re: Regression to the mean,Barry Bonds HRs

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Chung
Rich Ulrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:32:02 +0200, Robert Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip, earlier comments on Barry Bonds's home runs, then at 56, now at 63.] Hmmm. I would have suggested that Pac Bell Park was much more conducive to a power-hitting lefty than

Re: Regression to the mean,Barry Bonds HRs

2001-08-28 Thread Robert Chung
to the mean (and comments that Bonds has never before hit 50) might be more relevant if all other conditions were constant. They ain't. --Robert Chung = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem

Re: regression to the mean

2001-01-19 Thread Robert Chung
mately equal. But it's still there, which is what Elliot Cramer was saying. If we regressed, say, income on education, we'd observe the same effect, viz., that our predicted income for a given level of education is closer to the mean income (in standardized units) than the level of ed

Re: fla election stats

2001-01-06 Thread Robert Chung
"J. Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I would be interested in research showing voter intentions in those western counties AFTER learning the election had been already called. It would be fascinating to find out what the exit pollsters

Re: Is the vote brouhaha due to statistical falicy?

2000-11-19 Thread Robert Chung
of hand counts being able to produce an additional thousand votes for Gore, but since this is a stat discussion and not a political one I'm going to refrain from sharing it. --Robert Chung "Bob Wheeler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: NY Times on statisticians' view of election

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Chung
ay be quite subtle, but then the differences are pretty small, too. Alternatively, maybe there really *is* cheating going on. This could be part of a discussion with students, too. --Robert Chung = Instructions for joining and

Re: NY Times on statisticians' view of election

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Chung
"Rich Ulrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Oh! that's interesting. I was picturing the *cards* as the source of variance. Even if manufacturing control is good, I bet that a dry-and-crisp card is voted with fewer errors than a card

Re: Palm Beach Stats

2000-11-11 Thread Robert Chung
of expertise in estimating the effect. That would be true whether the vote difference in Florida were 100 votes, 1000 votes, or 100,000 votes (though it certainly is more interesting when the race is close). --Robert Chung

Re: Stats on Palm Beach votes

2000-11-11 Thread Robert Chung
Or perhaps things are done differently in Florida than elsewhere? I take it from your e-mail address that you know more about Florida than I. --Robert Chung = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about

Re: Stats on Palm Beach votes

2000-11-09 Thread Robert Chung
ership in the county I think it disingenuous to believe there's no evidence of *error*. --Robert Chung = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =