C-code for LMS and LTS regression

2001-04-19 Thread Esa Ollila
Hi, If you need C-program or C-functions for LMS or LTS regression you can find one from my web-site http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~esaolli/ . The code should be very easily integrated to your own projects. -Esa = Instructions for

Re: Comparing Software Options-NCSS, Minitab, SPSS

2001-04-19 Thread Ken K.
I am a MINITAB user and don't claim to have used it with the sample sizes your talking about. BUT, I would venture to say that it has the best reliability analysis tools of any general statistics package out there. Only Weibull ++ and (maybe) WeibullSmith are better. By "reliability analysis" I'm

regression hypotheses

2001-04-19 Thread Junwook Chi
Hi everybody! I am doing Tobit analysis for my research and want to test regression hypotheses (Normality, Constant variance, Independence) using plots of residuals. I also want to check outliers and leverage. but I am not sure whether I could use these tests for the Tobit model (non-linear) or

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-19 Thread dennis roberts
At 04:42 PM 4/19/01 +, Radford Neal wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't find this persuasive. nor the reverse ... since we have NO data on any of this ... only our own notions of how it MIGHT play itself out inside the heads of students I

characteristic functions

2001-04-19 Thread Paolo Covelli
Does someone know books on the characteristic functions of multivariate random variables ? Thanks in advance. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-19 Thread Radford Neal
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: students have enough problems with all the stuff in stat as it is ... but, when we start some discussion about sampling error of means ... for use in building a confidence interval and/or testing some hypothesis ... the

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-19 Thread dennis roberts
At 11:47 AM 4/19/01 -0500, Christopher J. Mecklin wrote: As a reply to Dennis' comments: If we deleted the z-test and went right to t-test, I believe that students' understanding of p-value would be even worse... i don't follow the logic here ... are you saying that instead of their

Re: Comparing Software Options-NCSS, Minitab, SPSS

2001-04-19 Thread dennis roberts
one can possibly download mtb for $26 for 6 months ... at http://www.-e-academy.com/minitab i am not sure everyone qualifies but, it is worth a try AND is the full release 13 if you played your cards right ... you can download for FREE for 30 days and then EXTEND the "lease" after that ...

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-19 Thread Jon Cryer
Why not introduce hypothesis testing in a binomial setting where there are no nuisance parameters and p-values, power, alpha, beta,... may be obtained easily and exactly from the Binomial distribution? Jon Cryer At 01:48 AM 4/20/01 -0400, you wrote: At 11:47 AM 4/19/01 -0500, Christopher J.

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-19 Thread Alan McLean
All of your observations about the deficiencies of data are perfectly valid. But what do you do? Just give up because your data are messy, and your assumptions are doubtful and all that? Go and dig ditches instead? You can only analyse data by making assumptions - by working with models of the