Re: not significant

2001-09-13 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vadim and Oxana Marmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You need to check (may be by simulations) if your test has any power to >reject the null. If the power is low than get more subjects. >On 12 Sep 2001, sylvie perera wrote: >>

Re: not significant

2001-09-13 Thread Jerry Dallal
Stan Brown wrote: > Perhaps you might want to > define it the first time on that page: SEM = standard error of the > mean. Good point. Done. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPR

Re: not significant

2001-09-12 Thread dennis roberts
At 10:10 PM 9/12/01 -0400, Stan Brown wrote: >[cc'd to previous poster; please follow up in newsgroup] > >Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: > >One suggestion, if I may: I scratched my head for a moment over >"SEM". At least in my course, I don't believe the textbook ever uses

Re: not significant

2001-09-12 Thread Vadim and Oxana Marmer
You need to check (may be by simulations) if your test has any power to reject the null. If the power is low than get more subjects. On 12 Sep 2001, sylvie perera wrote: > Hi, > > If a result is not significant, I realise this is because it may be due > to chance. > > Is ther

Re: not significant

2001-09-12 Thread Stan Brown
[cc'd to previous poster; please follow up in newsgroup] Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >What you're trying to get at is >answered in part by a confidence interval for the difference between >the groups, which tells you what differences are consistent with the >data. >See

Re: not significant

2001-09-12 Thread Jerry Dallal
I wrote: > What you're trying to get at is > answered in part by a confidence interval for the difference between ^^ > the groups, Meant to write mean difference. = Inst

Re: not significant

2001-09-12 Thread Jerry Dallal
sylvie perera wrote: > > Hi, > > If a result is not significant, I realise this is because it may > be due to chance. > > Is there a way of telling if more subjects are needed or there > actually is no difference between the groups? This isn't quite the right qu

not significant

2001-09-12 Thread sylvie perera
Hi,   If a result is not significant, I realise this is because it may be due to chance.    Is there a way of telling if more subjects are needed or there actually is no difference between the groups?   Thanks in advance Sylvie.Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com