Thanks Donald and Karl for your responses...
Yeah, I don't know why I didn't think to compute my eta-squared on the
significant trends. As I said, trend analysis is new to me (psych grad
student) and I just got startled by the results.
The "significant" 4th and 5th order trends only account for
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, dennis roberts wrote in part:
> i know that sometimes power is "defined" as 1 - beta ... but, beta
> could therefore (algebraically and logically) be defined as 1 - power
Only for the conditional definition of power; I would wish to add the
conditional clause "when the nu
Philip has been unfortunate enough to get significance on his 4th and 5th
order trends, and is hoping that nonsignificance of the 3rd order trend
means the higher order trends are spurious. Sorry no. Consider a perfect
quadratic relationship -- there will be absolutely no linear component. I
wo
Dennis wants a name for the probability of correctly retaining a true null
hypothesis, and Don likes to think of these probabilities as unconditional,
so why not just call the probability of correctly retaining a true null
hypothesis by its most likely *unconditional* value, ZERO. ;-) Sorry, I
j
On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:16:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Williams)
wrote:
> The Census Bureau urged Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Thursday not
> to use adjusted results from the 2000 population count. Evans must
> now weigh the recommendation from the Census Bureau, and will make the
> decision
At 03:08 AM 3/4/01 -0500, Donald Burrill wrote:
>Do you have a reasoned objection to "1 - alpha"? In other contexts we
>routinely use, e.g., "1 - Rsq" for the proportion of variance unexplained
>by the model being considered. The "1 minus" construction shows the
>logical and arithmetical con
