Hello everybody!
Does anybody know (a) real good book(s) on Multivariate Data Analysis, which
is really up to date (Structural Equatation Modeling, Neural Networks and so
on) and tells me "how to do it the right way"? Most books I know show only a
few aspects, have some mistakes (e.g. testig on H
Neil W. Henry wrote:
> A book that you might find useful is not a statistics book, and it is out
> of print, but here is the title and author:
> Casual groups of monkeys and men; stochastic models of elemental social
> systems
>by Joel E. Cohen
9 copies currently availlable via the exce
You are doing interesting research, but you should stop believing that
there is a statistical "test" out there that will magically reveal the
stories hidden in your data.
Despite the hype by its proponents I have never been able to use
Correspondence Analysis successfully unless I knew in advance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for your comments. Here is some further explanation of my data.
> I observed a group of lemurs twice per week for about five months. I
> observed each animal of 12 for one 25 minute period over the day during
> which at every 20 second interval I recorded:
>
> 1)
Hi
Thanks for your comments. Here is some further explanation of my data.
I observed a group of lemurs twice per week for about five months. I
observed each animal of 12 for one 25 minute period over the day during
which at every 20 second interval I recorded:
1) The behaviour the animal was doi
Re: Don's comments.
Much of what Don says is true, but I disagree with his portrayel of cluster analysis
as being used with only "quantitative" measures. Clustering can be done not only with
distance measures but with similarity measures. There are a number of coefficents
that can be used to
On Wed, 31 May 2000 Claire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am currently attempting to look at the effects of several nominal
> independent variables (all categorical
Well, yes: if they're ("only") nominal they must be categorical.
(What, by the way, is "Sun"? Time and day seem more or less
se
Hi
I am currently attempting to look at the effects of several nominal
independent variables (all categorical e.g Sun 1, 2 ,3 - Time 1,2,3 day
1,2,3)upon one nominal dependent variable( behavior coded eg.
55=upright sit). I was hoping to examine relationships with PCA or CA
and then to relate the
