Fisher & Tippett Extreme Value Theorem

2002-01-09 Thread Vmcw
Hi! I'm looking at an article that references a result by Fisher & Tippett (specific reference is "Limiting Forms of the Frequency Distribution of the Largest or Smallest Member of a Sample," Procedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 24, 180-190 (1928)). The article presents the result a

Fisher-Hayter

2001-07-12 Thread Vmcw
Hi: A colleague had a reviewer suggest that he use a Fisher-Hayter multiple comparisons procedure (he'd used Scheffe in his article) so he asked me about it and I replied "huh"? (Haven't heard of it.) I'm trying to point him in the right direction without actually going to the office (It's summ

Re: VIF

2000-05-30 Thread Vmcw
>>It is 10. I hope, you are talking about Variance Inflation Factor. More >than >>10 indicates severe multicollinearity. > > >And where does this magic number come from? :) > > Neter, Wasserman, Nachtsheim, and Kutner, of course! (or is it Wasserman, Kutner, Neter, and Nachtsheim or one of the o

Re: Stat Job Market (Academia) Question

2000-05-27 Thread Vmcw
>T.S. Lim said: (and Tom answers!) >Questions: >1. Where did you advertise the opening? Amstat News? DSI (Decision Sciences Institute) (a "business" association oriented towards quantitative types) and AMSTAT news and 1st year, just DSI due to a screwup the 2nd year. I understand that skipping

Stat Job Market (Academia) Question

2000-05-27 Thread Vmcw
Hi! I'm posting this here as it looks like this newsgroup is frequented by some stat professors. If anyone can suggest a better outlet, please let me know. Here's my question(s): I'm in the Decision Sciences Dept. at Drexel University (in the business school), and for two years we've tried to