Re: REML for Dummies?

2002-03-01 Thread kjetil halvorsen
A good book is Pinheiro, J.C. and Bates., D.M. "mixed models with S and S-Plus", Springer. Kjetil Halvorsen Dr Jonathan Newman wrote: > > I'm trying to find a good introduction to REML (restricted maximum > likelihood). I'm a biologist rather than a s

Re: Cauchy PDF + Parameter Estimate

2002-02-25 Thread kjetil halvorsen
It isstraightforward tlo write down the loglikelihood, and then whatever optimization routine (there must be one in Matlab) will help you! Kjetil Halvorsen Chia C Chong wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anyone come across some Matlab code to estimate the parameters for the > Cauchy PDF?

Re: Book/textbook on applied math with expectation/variance

2002-02-13 Thread kjetil halvorsen
A book which seems to comply with your requirements are P Whittle's "Probability based on expectation", in its 4.th edition from Springer. Kjetil Halvorsen maximus wrote: > > Thank you. I will look for the book and others with advanced level of > difficulty. >

Re: Ansari-Bradley dispersion test.

2002-02-13 Thread kjetil halvorsen
Hola! For a more robust test, which not assumes equal centers, use the fligner-Killeen test. Kjetil Halvorsen Glen Barnett wrote: > > Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 16:5

Re: cutting tails of samples

2002-01-31 Thread kjetil halvorsen
sy to see), so might increase, not decrease, problems. Best, Kjetil Halvorsen Dennis Roberts wrote: > > here is an example from minitab ... in moore and mccabe's book intro. to > practice of statistics ... 3rd edition ... they have an example of speed of > light measurements .

Re: Empirical data Fitting

2002-01-14 Thread kjetil halvorsen
A quantile-Quantile plot for graphical comparison is best, if you need a numerical test you can use the pearson correlation coefficient between the observed and expected quantiles. A table for that test you can ake for yourself with simulation. Kjetil Halvorsen Chia C Chong wrote: > &

Re: When to Use t and When to Use z Revisited

2001-12-10 Thread kjetil halvorsen
1. Wrong > 2. Just oversimplifying it without telling the reader They are not oversimplifying, they are complexifying. To quote Polya "How to solve it" : "If you need rules, use this one first: 1) Use your own brains first". Sigma is hardly ever known, so you must

Slutsky's theorem

2001-12-06 Thread kjetil halvorsen
Slutsky's theorem says that if Xn ->(D) X and Yn ->(P) y0, y0 a constant, then Xn + Yn ->(D) X+y0. It is easy to make a counterexample if both Xn and Yn converges in distribution. Anybody have an counterexample when Yn converges in probability to a non-constant random variable? Kj

Re: Gen random numbers from distribution

2001-12-04 Thread kjetil halvorsen
You van use the gpl-ed statistics environment R "http://cran.r-project.org"; to do this, and if you want only the code (in c), you can get that from the source code distribution of R. (But if you want to distribute your program, beware the GPL) Kjetil Halvorsen Tom wrote: >

Re: t vs. z - recapitulation

2001-11-30 Thread kjetil halvorsen
c, you can bootstrap the distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator. All of this are cheap tyoday, at least with a decent language like R or S-plus. To repeat, no need for rules of thumb, use your computer to find out what is right for your data. Kjetil Halvorsen Gaj Vidmar wrote: > >

Re: fractional factorial design / DOE

2001-11-28 Thread kjetil halvorsen
Hola! I beleave the best reference for this topic is Box, Hunter & Hunter: Statistics for experimenters. Wiley Its newer books but not better ones. If youn cannot do with a standard fraccional factorial, I could help out with D-optimal designs. Kjetil Halvorsen Eric wrote: > > Do

Re: anyone using datadesk ?

2001-11-23 Thread kjetil halvorsen
ve a vague recollection of reading that that datadesk can do some of this things, but I newer saw a version. Kjetil Halvorsen dennis roberts wrote: > > datadesk is now linked on minitabs homepage ...as is minitab being linked > on datadesks homepage ... > > At 11:36 AM 11/23/01