Brogden-Clemens coefficient

2001-03-20 Thread Ken Reed
Is anyone familiar with the Brogden-Clemens coefficient for measuring index reliability? How is it calculated? What is the original reference? = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAP

Re: Seeking eingineering data sets

2001-03-20 Thread W. D. Allen Sr.
Check out XLStats at, http://www.man.deakin.edu.au/rodneyc/XLStats.htm I have used a number of stat programs and this one is the easiest to use for us non-professional statisticians. It solves what I believe is the biggest problem in statistics, i.e., which statistical inference test is appropri

Discriminant analysis group sample sizes

2001-03-20 Thread Brian M. Schott
Is it necessary to approximately balance the sample size in the groups of the validation or holdout sample to develop a good discriminant function? I am a little unclear about the extent to which the prior probabilities can be used to adjust for sample proportions which do not represent th

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Re: misues of statistics

2001-03-20 Thread J. Williams
I read an article on the statistical analyses of the death penalty vis a vis "race" many years ago which attributed the difference in capital sentencing to the nature of the crime itself. That is to say, if the crime were a murder "passion-related" or a crime committed during an armed robbery.

Re: Optimal Sample Size Determined by Confidence Interval

2001-03-20 Thread Donald Burrill
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Scott wrote: > I am uncertain about the solution to the problem for which I am trying > to solve. I am hoping that someone might help guide me to the correct > solution. First you'll have to be rather clearer about what the problem is. Comments embedded be

Seeking eingineering data sets

2001-03-20 Thread Jim Youngman
Can anyone point me to data sets related to (Civil) Engineering that would be suitable for use as examples in an elementary statistics course for engineers? Jim Youngman begin 666 Jim Youngman.vcf M0D5'24XZ5D-!4D0-"E9%4E-)3TXZ,BXQ#0I..EEO=6YG;6%N.TII;0T*1DXZ M2FEM(%EO=6YG;6%N#0I.24-+3D%-13I286

Fed Reserve Survey of Consumer Finance

2001-03-20 Thread Milo Schield
The US Federal reserve has a large data set of information for the 1998 sample of some 4,000 families. http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html The data includes income, assets, liabilities and net worth by family. This questionnaire is far from simple but the data is not availab