Re: help on factor analysis/non-normality

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Ehrlich
to amplifiy a bit, the interpretability of regression tends to go down as the assumptions of normality and homogeneous variance are markedly different from reality. You can still go through the calcualtions but the interpretation of results gets tricky. Factor analysis is a sort of regression an

Re: help on factor analysis/non-normality

2002-03-01 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 1 Mar 2002 04:51:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mobile Survey) wrote: > What do i do if I need to run a factor analysis and have non-normal > distribution for some of the items (indicators)? Does Principal > component analysis require the normality assumption. There is no problem of non-normal

help on factor analysis/non-normality

2002-03-01 Thread Mobile Survey
What do i do if I need to run a factor analysis and have non-normal distribution for some of the items (indicators)? Does Principal component analysis require the normality assumption. Can I use GLS to extract the factors and get over the problem of non-normality. Please do give references if you

Re: Likert Scale Analysis - HELP!

2002-02-17 Thread Dave M
laimer. > The STATS web page has moved to > http://www.childrens-mercy.org/stats > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 4:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Likert Scale A

Re: Likert Scale Analysis - HELP!

2002-02-17 Thread Art Kendall
for a small set of data like this using SPSS is pretty straight forward. Use the data view (spread sheet) to put your data in. Use the variables view spread sheet to define your variables. You can copy info from one row to the other. It is worthwhile to take the time to put all the labels in. be

RE: Likert Scale Analysis - HELP!

2002-02-16 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Title: RE: Likert Scale Analysis - HELP! It's difficult to answer a question that is asked so generally. You might try explaining to this group why you collected the data in the first place. For the most part, it is typically to: 1. characterize a specific group of interest, 2. compar

Likert Scale Analysis - HELP!

2002-02-16 Thread Dave M
Hi there, I have recently done a 5-point likert-style survey (with 34 questions) and got about 45 responses. I am not great at statistics, and have not studied it since high school! Can someone please give me some advice on how to analyse the data? I am not looking to do a full-on smart-ass a

help for socio-economic data to this address

2002-01-17 Thread pingzhao Hu
summarize and describe the meaning of the data? (2)What are the general methods to identify trends and issues represented by the data? Thanks you for your help in advance!!! Pingzhao Hu = Instructions for joining and leaving

Re: Help finding article

2002-01-15 Thread Marc Schwartz
eplaced by Visual Studio Magazine, which now covers a wider variety of the Visual languages. -- Marc Schwartz To Reply Remove "-REMOVE.TO.REPLY-" in E-Mail Address "Robert R Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...

Help finding article

2002-01-15 Thread Robert R Johnson
Would someone please help me find the name and address (e-mail preferably) of the author of the article "Fall 1998 Salary Survey Results" that appeared on p. 78 in Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, September, 1998. I thank you in advance for any assistance offere

Complicated? Card Stat - Experts PLEASE Help

2002-01-05 Thread MichaelDnc
Hi, I desperately need to put a software program or spreadsheet (if possible) to give me probabilities of certain winning hands occurring. This would've been a piece of cake if dealing with probability of getting a pair that is Jack or better from 5 cards handed to you and universe of 52 cards.

Re: Need help with a probability problem

2001-11-29 Thread Thom Baguley
Donald Burrill wrote: > Then, again, you are asserting that this is not a probability problem but > a measuring-skill problem. Your postulate that the subsequent > executioners must have reduced "probabilities" (or success rates) only > makes sense if all executioners use the same method of execu

Re: Need help with a probability problem

2001-11-21 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
uble, problem omitted) and Donald Burrill responded: > Easier it may be, but one can't help suspecting that some aspects of the > inanities evident are not paralleled by structures or relationships in > whatever your "real" problem is... I agree with Donald...readin

Re: Need help with a probability problem

2001-11-20 Thread Donald Burrill
inanity of the example but it is much easier than trying to explain my > research. Easier it may be, but one can't help suspecting that some aspects of the inanities evident are not paralleled by structures or relationships in whatever your "real" problem is; which rather

Need help with a probability problem

2001-11-20 Thread J. Peter Leeds
I'm working on a formula for measuring decision making skill and am trying to estimate the probability that a person of known skill can distinguish among different response option contrasts and avoid a type II error. The problem actually breaks down to a rather simple analogy: Imagine that a man

Re: [HELP NEEDED] What is the best technique to analyze the following experiment?

2001-11-18 Thread Rich Ulrich
between 0.1 and 0.2, in certain, practical consequences. If it will please you to reduce the eventual intercorrelations to zero, a proper strategy *might* be to try alternative models to see if you can produce that result. Of course, in practice, it should be a great deal of help to know what th

[HELP NEEDED] What is the best technique to analyze the following experiment?

2001-11-16 Thread S.
I performed the following experiment: Each user (U) used several interfaces (I). Both U and I are to be treated as random factors. For each U and I combination, time (T), errors (E) and satisfaction (S) were measured. The data looks something like: U I T E S ---

Re: Fw: We need your help!!!

2001-11-13 Thread Rich Ulrich
n advance. > > Carl Huberty > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:10 AM > Subject: We need your help!!! > > > > Dear Sincere Prof. Huber

Fw: We need your help!!!

2001-11-12 Thread Carl Huberty
gt; To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:10 AM Subject: We need your help!!! > Dear Sincere Prof. Huberty > I hope that you are spending a happy time . > I have a sincere friend from Egypt. He is going to prepare for his > propos

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-16 Thread Art Kendall
is 2 prime? "Dr. Fairman" wrote: > "Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:<9qa466$4je$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > > "Dr. Fairman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > > > Well no I am afraid not, because although for all

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-16 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Nomen Nescio wrote: > > >Mr. Dawson wrote: > > >Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what > >mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him > >by somebody who: > > > >(a) believes all primes to be odd; > >... > ###

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Alan McLean
Can I claim the $1,000,000? There is certainly an even prime: 2. Alan Nomen Nescio wrote: > > >Mr. Dawson wrote: > > >Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what > >mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him > >by somebody who: > >

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Alan McLean
Ignoring the error in saying (2) that all primes are odd - where has 2 disappeared to? - you are highly confused about the difference between "if ... then " and "if and only if then ." Correcting (3) to: The sum of any two primes greater than 2 is even. This is true - but it does NO

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Reg Jordan
Nomen Nescio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments > At 10:40 PM 10/15/01 +0200, you wrote: > >### Dear Mr. Dawson, please send me at least ONE even prime > >##

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread meeroh
In article <9qf3la$1b2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you take any two primes their sum is OBVIOUSLY even. Such as 2 and 3 :-) But I know what you meant, and I know what your point is, so we can both killfile him now... meeroh -- Using random signatures is

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread dennis roberts
a prime # is a natural number GREATER than 1 that can be divided ONLY by 1 and itself ... a prime number has NO factors other than 1 and itself i think 2 qualifies ... and is not 2 ... even? send check to bob ASAP At 10:40 PM 10/15/01 +0200, you wrote: > >Mr. Dawson wrote: > > >Well,

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Ronny Richardson
At 10:40 PM 10/15/01 +0200, you wrote: >### Dear Mr. Dawson, please send me at least ONE even prime >### and i shall give you $1,000,000. Well, I am not Mr. Dawson but two (2) is both prime and even. You can send the check to the address below. Dr. Ronny Richardson Associate Prof

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Nomen Nescio
>Mr. Dawson wrote: >Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what >mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him >by somebody who: > >(a) believes all primes to be odd; >... ### Let's assume that any prime is NOT odd

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Stuart Gall
> Hello Stuart, > 1.Is sum of every two odds = even ? (Y/N) > Answer: Yes. > 2.Is any prime is odd? (Y/N) > Answer: Yes. > 3.Generalizing item #1 and #2, >Is sum of any two primes = even ? (Y/N) > Answer: Yes. > 4.If you agree with item #3 (if not - please argue - why), it means that > you ar

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Rich Ulrich
- Mathematical logic is a lot tougher when your translation fails to properly distinguish "any" and "every" and "some." On 15 Oct 2001 07:18:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Fairman) wrote: [ ... ] > 4.If you agree with item #3 (if not - please argue - why), it means that > you are also agr

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Well, they do say what goes around comes around; I'd love to see what mark the dishonest DL student gets having had his homework done for him by somebody who: (a) believes all primes to be odd; (b) believes that A=>B implies B=>A; (c) has never heard of Goldbach

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-15 Thread Dr. Fairman
"Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<9qa466$4je$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > "Dr. Fairman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Well no I am afraid not, because although for all p prime p = 2*n+1 is true > it is not true tha

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-13 Thread Nimish Shah
> > Q2 Show that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two > > primes Dr Fairman wrote: > Dear Stuart, > I promised to perform only one question for free and you put two. > Below is Q2 solution. If you need Q1 solution, contact me privately > and we shall negotiate on my fee rate. > You

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-13 Thread Stuart Gall
"Dr. Fairman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Dear Stuart, > I promised to perform only one question for free and you put two. > Below is Q2 solution. If you need Q1 solution, contact me privately > and we shall negotiate on my fee rate. > You n

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-13 Thread Dr. Fairman
for DL students in performing > > > assignments, theses, pfojects, courseworks, etc. > > > with detailed solutions descriptions. > > > > He is back again, and yet still no details about his 4 PhDs! > > > > Nim. > > > > NB. I guess it would hel

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-10 Thread \"Blaman\"
ics, electrical engineering, > > > computer science. > > > I render assistance for DL students in performing > > > assignments, theses, pfojects, courseworks, etc. > > > with detailed solutions descriptions. > > > > He is back again, and yet still no detail

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-10 Thread Stuart Gall
l engineering, > > computer science. > > I render assistance for DL students in performing > > assignments, theses, pfojects, courseworks, etc. > > with detailed solutions descriptions. > > He is back again, and yet still no details about his 4 PhDs! > > Nim.

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-10 Thread Rich Ulrich
ng > > assignments, theses, pfojects, courseworks, etc. > > with detailed solutions descriptions. > > He is back again, and yet still no details about his 4 PhDs! > > Nim. > > NB. I guess it would help if he uses the pural form of `degree`, > spell-checked his advert

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-10 Thread Nimish Shah
ain, and yet still no details about his 4 PhDs! Nim. NB. I guess it would help if he uses the pural form of `degree`, spell-checked his advert (pfojects), stop using pompous phrases with redundant words ("help&quo

Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-09 Thread Dr. Fairman
Dear DL Students, I have Ph.D. degree in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, computer science. I render assistance for DL students in performing assignments, theses, pfojects, courseworks, etc. with detailed solutions descriptions. Apply to me: you always get comprehensive help

Re: Help

2001-10-05 Thread david007
Thanks for your helps :) = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

Please help

2001-10-05 Thread david007
i haven't touch statistics materials for many years so i need someone be so kind to help me out with this simple problem: Tossing a fair coin n times. Let A denote the maximum run length, i.e. the largest number of consecutive heads we get among the n tosses. Find E(A) for the case n=10.

Re: Help

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
david007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >Hello, > >I haven't touched statistics for years but now i got a problem like this: > >Toss a fair coin n times. Let A denote the maximum run length, i.e. the >largest number of consecutive heads we get among the n tosses. > >Find P(A=2) analyt

Re: Help

2001-10-04 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
david007 wrote: Let A denote the maximum run length, i.e. the > largest number of consecutive heads we get among the n tosses. > > Find P(A=2) analytically (not by simulation) for the case n=5. Try rephrasing. "A=2" means that (1) there are two heads in a row

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-04 Thread Jon Miller
Dennis Roberts wrote: > At 06:07 PM 10/2/01 +, Jon Miller wrote: > > >The neat thing about math is the numerical answer doesn't matter, just the > >method. > > > >Jon Miller > > gee ... i hope you don't really mean that ... if so, that will take your bank > off the hook IF they royally mess u

Help

2001-10-03 Thread david007
Hello, I haven't touched statistics for years but now i got a problem like this: Toss a fair coin n times. Let A denote the maximum run length, i.e. the largest number of consecutive heads we get among the n tosses. Find P(A=2) analytically (not by simulation) for the case n=5. **

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-02 Thread Stuart Gall
There are three kinds of mathematician those that can count and those that can't :-) -- Stuart Gall This message is not provable. "Nimish Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Dear DL Student

RE: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-02 Thread Olsen, Chris
Hello All -- Not only that, I have an old Tacoma Narrows Bridge I'd like to sell someone. -- Chris Chris Olsen George Washington High School 2205 Forest Drive SE Cedar Rapids, IA (319)-398-2161 > >The neat thing about math is the numerical answer doesn't > matter, just the > >method.

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-02 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 06:07 PM 10/2/01 +, Jon Miller wrote: >The neat thing about math is the numerical answer doesn't matter, just the >method. > >Jon Miller gee ... i hope you don't really mean that ... if so, that will take your bank off the hook IF they royally mess up your bank statement and interest c

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-02 Thread Jon Miller
Nimish Shah wrote: > > Dear DL Students, > > > > I have Ph.D. degree in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, > computer science. 1 2 3 4 > Can you please post details of your 3 PhDs! The neat thing

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-02 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Nimish Shah wrote: > > > Dear DL Students, > > > > I have Ph.D. degree in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, > > computer science. > > Can you please post details of your 3 PhDs! Four, surely? -R. Dawson ==

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-01 Thread markov
On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 16:51:27 GMT, Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Dr. Fairman" wrote: > >> Dear DL Students, > >What's a DL student? "distance learning" student? = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-01 Thread Nimish Shah
> Dear DL Students, > > I have Ph.D. degree in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, > computer science. Can you please post details of your 3 PhDs! Nim. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-01 Thread Rich Carreiro
Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's a DL student? "Distance Learning", I'd imagine. -- Rich Carreiro[EMAIL PROTECTED] = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the

Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-10-01 Thread Jon Miller
"Dr. Fairman" wrote: > Dear DL Students, What's a DL student? Jon Miller = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat

Re: Help with Minitab Problem?

2001-09-30 Thread Donald Burrill
Turns out the method I originally suggested is unnecessarily cumbersome. A more elegant method is described below. On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Donald Burrill wrote in part: > COPY c1-c35 to c41-c75; # Always retain the original data > OMIT c1 = '*'; > OMIT c2 = '*'; > . . .

Help for DL students in doing assignments

2001-09-30 Thread Dr. Fairman
Dear DL Students, I have Ph.D. degree in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, computer science. I render assistance for DL students in performing assignments, theses, pfojects, courseworks, etc. with detailed solutions descriptions. Apply to me: you always get comprehensive help

Re: Help with Minitab Problem?

2001-09-29 Thread Donald Burrill
I second Dennis' question. While indeed "MINITAB recognizes the missing values", what it does with them depends on the procedure being used: e.g., for CORRelation it uses all cases for which each pair of variables is complete ("pairwise deletion of missing data"), and therefore, for a data set l

Re: Help with Minitab Problem?

2001-09-28 Thread dennis roberts
unless you have a million rows ... seems like using the data window and just sliding over each row and highlight and delete ... would be easy by the way, why do you want to get rid of entire rows just because (perhaps) one value is missing? are you not wasting alot of useful data? At 06:16 PM

Help with MINITAB

2001-09-28 Thread John Spitzer
I have a dataset which has about 35 column. Many of the cells have missing values. Since MINITAB recognizes the missing values, I can perform the statistical work I need to do and don't need to worry about the missing values. However, I would like to be able to obtain the subset of observations

Help with Minitab Problem?

2001-09-28 Thread John Spitzer
I have a dataset which has about 35 column. Many of the cells have missing values. Since MINITAB recognizes the missing values, I can perform the statistical work I need to do and don't need to worry about the missing values. However, I would like to be able to obtain the subset of observations

Ask for help

2001-09-21 Thread ASGHAR AKBARI
Hi I have a problem in linear algebra that is; If T be a linear transformation matrix(squared matrix) and inv(T') be the inverse of transpose of T, is inv(T') a linear transformation matrix too??? Thanks for your help ASG

Splus function loglin, help needed.

2001-09-12 Thread Rhythmpsyc
The help file for the S+ function loglin is scant. You pass it the model by specifiying a list, e.g. loglin(dat, list(1:2,3)) I'm trying to understand this. Suppose I have a 3D table. Does 1:N mean fit the nth way interaction? Are all lower level interactions and main effects automati

Re: Need help! Finding effect size in 2-way fully within design?

2001-09-09 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 7 Sep 2001 20:39:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melvin Yap) wrote: > I'm running a 2 x 5 fully-within ANOVA design, where A has 2 levels > and B has 5 levels. After finding a significant interaction, I looked > at the simple main effect of A at each level of B. My question is: how > do you compu

Need help! Finding effect size in 2-way fully within design?

2001-09-07 Thread Melvin Yap
Hi, I'm running a 2 x 5 fully-within ANOVA design, where A has 2 levels and B has 5 levels. After finding a significant interaction, I looked at the simple main effect of A at each level of B. My question is: how do you compute the effect size of each of the simple main effects? I was wondering i

Re: In search of person to help in publishing article

2001-09-04 Thread RCKnodt
With all the virus going around, please do not post e-mail with attachments to the mailing list. Send attachments only to those who request them. Thanks for your understanding Dr. Robert C. Knodt [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Instructions

Re: In search of person to help in publishing article

2001-09-04 Thread Gordon D. Pusch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rajiv Pandey) writes: > Please see the content of article " A note on factor analysis in > forestry research' in attached sheet and if interested let me know. > Any suggestion will be welcomed. My first two sugestions are: 1.) Don't post binary files to a non-binary newsgro

In search of person to help in publishing article

2001-09-03 Thread Rajiv Pandey
Dear Members Please see the content of article " A note on factor analysis in forestry research' in attached sheet and if interested let me know. Any suggestion will be welcomed. Thanks in advance Rajiv Pandey For email.doc

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2001-08-29 Thread ForeverFamily.com
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Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-29 Thread EAKIN MARK E
> > Cantor > > > Uzytkownik "EAKIN MARK E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisal w wiadomosci > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > > > I have just finished creating an ASP web page that will help students > > use a normal table

Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-28 Thread David Lane
ewsgroups: sci.stat.edu > Date: 27 Jul 2001 11:56:29 -0700 > Subject: web page to help use normal table > > > > I have just finished creating an ASP web page that will help students > use a normal table that gives probabilities for ranges of the standard > normal that start at 0 up to

Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-28 Thread Donald Burrill
Use the table twice -- for P(0 I did not try to examine your work thoroughly but at the very beginning > I try to count P(z1 changed. What about z2? in response to "EAKIN MARK E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who had written: > > I have just finished creating an ASP web pag

Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-28 Thread Cantor
I did not try to examine your work thoroughly but at the very beginning I try to count P(z1 napisal w wiadomosci [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > I have just finished creating an ASP web page that will help students > use a normal table that gives probabi

Re: web page to help use normal table

2001-07-27 Thread Dennis Roberts
IN MARK E wrote: >I have just finished creating an ASP web page that will help students >use a normal table that gives probabilities for ranges of the standard >normal that start at 0 up to a Z value. If you wish to try it, go to > >http://www2.uta.edu/eakin/busa3321/normaltable/p2.a

web page to help use normal table

2001-07-27 Thread EAKIN MARK E
I have just finished creating an ASP web page that will help students use a normal table that gives probabilities for ranges of the standard normal that start at 0 up to a Z value. If you wish to try it, go to http://www2.uta.edu/eakin/busa3321/normaltable/p2.asp I would be interested in

Re: need help with SAS

2001-07-27 Thread Donald Burrill
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Nadine Wells wrote in part: > Does anyone know what the power link function does in SAS? [...] when > I plot the equation based on the parameter estimates, the model doesn't > seem to look like I want it to. [...] I am trying to get SAS to run a > model that resembles e

need help with SAS

2001-07-27 Thread Nadine Wells
Does anyone know what the power link function does in SAS? I have to provide a parameter estimate in parenthases after the link=power command. I've been using -1 but when I plot the equation based on the parameter estimates, the model doesn't seem to look like I want it to. Does anyone know exactl

[Please Help] Maximum Value

2001-01-31 Thread weedlet
Let Xi, Yi be integers, i = 1, 2, ..., n, and 0 <= Xi <= Yi, 0 < Yi; Let X1 + X2 + ... Xn = SX, Y1 + Y2 + ... + Yn = SY; Let Pi = Xi / Yi Then What is the maximum value of P1 * log(1 / P1) + P2 * log(1 / P2) + ... + Pn * log(1 / Pn). Note: I've tested with some data, the maximum value i

Re: Help Log-Probit in Excel

2001-01-26 Thread Nick Nelson
nything about things like maximum likelihood, > weighting etc.). I downloaded the model description from SPSS. Even > though very elaborate the model description from the SPSS-website was > not too much help to a medicine man. One way of dealing with 0 and 100 in these circumstances is to recode 0

Re: Help Log-Probit in Excel

2001-01-25 Thread Richard A. Beldin
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --46D0737844C9CF0BEDE1D80F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't know where that came from. I studied from Finney as well. I guess I'm suffering from old-timer's disease. :-) --46D07

Re: Help Log-Probit in Excel

2001-01-24 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:32:56 -0400, "Richard A. Beldin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The transform from Z scores to probits uses a constant 6 translation, > not 5. I don't know if that solves your problem, but it might eliminate > some confusion. WHOSE confusion? I learned my probits from th

Re: Help Log-Probit in Excel

2001-01-24 Thread Richard A. Beldin
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --ECCA490F99BC503A5BC927C1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The transform from Z scores to probits uses a constant 6 translation, not 5. I don't know if that solves your problem, but it might elimin

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-24 Thread ny226
is too > easy. > > SO what does the question asking me for? > > Car C: 28.629.1 28.5 31.1 29.7 > (b) Show that the midrange will serve their purpose. > > What does this question mean? > ---> Im guessing that midrange is 'mena of largest and smallest >

Help Log-Probit in Excel

2001-01-24 Thread H. Noedl
m the SPSS-website was not too much help to a medicine man. An Example of the data we have: Drug Dose Response (% of parasites killed) 0 (control)0 0.31.786 1 3.571 3 19.643 10 78.571 30 92.857 100100 300100 I

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-23 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
> > Here is the question: > > > > Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 > > > > (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car > > performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in > > this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim?

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-23 Thread Vincent Vinh-Hung
ny226 wrote: > > Here is the question: > > Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 > > (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car > performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in > this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim? > >

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-23 Thread Vincent Vinh-Hung
erve their purpose. > > What does this question mean? > ---> Im guessing that midrange is 'mena of largest and smallest > value'. so the answer shoud be should be '30.3'. Is this what the > question is asking for? > > Please help > > Thanks

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-23 Thread Richard A. Beldin
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --82BC8D92CC03F9E9B6B85561 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In this context, "substantiate" is used to mean "provide evidence for". Its a stretch from "value" but is commonly used by people who like

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Z. Taran
ny: this is a designed as a really easy question to o test your understanding of different "averages", whichever are discussed in your textbook: mean (that is arithmetic average), median, apparently, midrange, whatever else (see your textbook). but keep in mind that mode is the value that is encou

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
are you saying that the TOTAL question ... lies between the two following lines? At 03:26 PM 1/22/01 -0500, Paige Miller wrote: >ny226 wrote: > > > > Here is the question: === > > > > Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 > > > > (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to adverti

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Paige Miller
ny226 wrote: > > Here is the question: > > Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 > > (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car > performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in > this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim? I h

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
t; > What does this question mean? > ---> Im guessing that midrange is 'mena of largest and smallest > value'. so the answer shoud be should be '30.3'. Is this what the > question is asking for? > > Please help > > Thanks in advance! > >

I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread ny226
ion asking me for? Car C: 28.629.1 28.5 31.1 29.7 (b) Show that the midrange will serve their purpose. What does this question mean? ---> Im guessing that midrange is 'mena of largest and smallest value'. so the answer shoud be should be '30.3'. Is this wha

Help needed with Anderson-Darling Test

2001-01-20 Thread Veeral Patel
Hi I have been conducting goodness of fit tests using A-D tests and one thing i forgot to do beforehand was to find out if A-D tables of critical values exist. I have read one book from D'Agostino and Stephens(1986) they outline distribution specific A-D test critical values which rely on formula

Thanks for help

2001-01-10 Thread Ming Dai (MTH)
Thanks everyone for your help. The problem is that the argument changed in the function, a new feature for Fortran, but it gives me much troble. Ming *** * Department of Mathematics * * University of S. Florida* * 4202 E

Re: Help for this small program

2001-01-10 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 10 Jan 2001 10:39:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ming Dai , MTH) wrote: > > Please help me with the following Fortran program. When the line labeled > 60 does not run, the result for q2 is correct; but when this line runs, > the results are totally wrong, since the values of z in

Re: Help for this small program

2001-01-10 Thread Jonathan Fry
. -- "Ming Dai , MTH" wrote: > Please help me with the following Fortran program. When the line labeled > 60 does not run, the result for q2 is correct; but when this line runs, > the results are totally wrong, since the

Help for this small program

2001-01-10 Thread Ming Dai (MTH)
Please help me with the following Fortran program. When the line labeled 60 does not run, the result for q2 is correct; but when this line runs, the results are totally wrong, since the values of z in the do-loop change. Can someone tell why and how to correct it? Thanks in advance

Re: help with modelling

2000-12-18 Thread Glen Barnett
Debraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > hi, > > I have a set of data which indicates number of correct responses on a > test (score) for 20 persons. I wanted to know if I can model the same > mathematically based on certain factors, say Score =

Re: help with modelling

2000-12-17 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Herman Rubin - The model must come from the investigator, not from the data. Data only helps to choose between models, estimate parameters, and related questions. - End of forwarded message from Herman Rubin - Actually, I think the apparent conflict betw

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