Re: SRSes

2001-07-25 Thread Art Kendall
my previous remarks were about other sampling designs. I was comaring valid complex designs to SRS design and not non-sampling case selection. dennis roberts wrote: > my hypothesis of course is that more often than not ... in data collection > problems where sampling is involved AND inferences

Re: SRSes

2001-07-25 Thread Art Kendall
Dennis Roberts wrote: > > > but, we KNOW that most samples are drawn in a way that is WORSE than SRS ... > > thus, essentially every CI ... is too narrow ... or, every test statistic > ... t or F or whatever ... has a p value that is too LOW ... > > what adjustment do we make for this basic pr

RE: SRSes

2001-07-24 Thread dennis roberts
my hypothesis of course is that more often than not ... in data collection problems where sampling is involved AND inferences are desired ... we goof far more often ... than do a better than SRS job of sampling 1. i wonder if anyone has really taken a SRS of the literature ... maybe stratified

RE: SRSes

2001-07-24 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Dennis Roberts writes: > most books talk about inferential statistics ... particularly those > where you take a sample ... find some statistic ... estimate some error > term ... then build a CI or test some null hypothesis ... > > error in these cases is always assumed to be based on taking AT

Re: SRSes

2001-07-24 Thread Jerry Dallal
Dennis Roberts wrote: > but, we KNOW that most samples are drawn in a way that is WORSE than SRS ... > > thus, essentially every CI ... is too narrow ... or, every test statistic > ... t or F or whatever ... has a p value that is too LOW ... > > what adjustment do we make for this basic problem

Re: SRSes

2001-07-24 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 03:55 PM 7/24/01 -0400, Donald Burrill wrote: >Hi, Dennis! > Yes, as you point out, most elementary textbooks treat only SRS >types of samples. But while (as you also point out) some more realistic >sampling methods entail larger sampling variance than SRS, some of them >have _smaller_

Re: SRSes

2001-07-24 Thread Donald Burrill
Hi, Dennis! Yes, as you point out, most elementary textbooks treat only SRS types of samples. But while (as you also point out) some more realistic sampling methods entail larger sampling variance than SRS, some of them have _smaller_ variance -- notably, stratified designs when the st