Re: Trend analysis question

"Philip Cozzolino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... However, after the cubic non-significant finding, the 4th and 5th order trends are significant. Intuitively, it seems that if there is no cubic trend of significance, there will not be any

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Re: power,beta, etc.

At 12:09 AM 3/5/01 -0500, Donald Burrill wrote: Well, no. Overrated it may be (that lies, I think, in the eye of the beholder); but a _decision_ it is definitely not. Power is the _probability_ of making a particular decision -- which, of course, like all decisions, may or may not be correct.

Re: power,beta, etc.

Okay, I'll chime in a bit here: I like the notion of seperating out the "state of affairs" from probabilities as Don suggests...I've never seen it done this way before, but I have seen some students confused with what should be pretty simple stuff...I will be trying this material as two tables

Re: power,beta, etc.

In response to Dennis's earlier statement, "that is ... power in many cases is a highly overrated CORRECT decision" I wrote: Well, no. Overrated it may be (that lies, I think, in the eye of the beholder); but a _decision_ it is definitely not. Power is the _probability_ of making a

Re: basic stats question

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard A. Beldin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed the point, Herman. I don't assert that these are independent random variables. I claim that introducing students to the concept of independent sample spaces from which we construct a cartesian product sample

Re: basic stats question

In article 52jo6.114$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Milo Schield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what does this (in)dependence really mean? Can it change on conditioning? . This seems related to Simpson's paradox. In any event, it seems that independence can be conditional.

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Re: power,beta, etc.

the "act" of "deciding" (using whatever rule/CV you like) to retain the null or reject the null ... is just that and nothing more however, you do NOT "act" or "decide" to make a type II error or a type I error ... you don't "act" or "decide" to make an incorrect or correct choice ... the

Re: power,beta, etc.

I think the problem that most students have is that they think we can know whether we've made an error. I use the courtroom analogy to clarify that we can never know for sure. You might convict an innocent person or find a guilty person innocent, and we can't know the true state of the world. As

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