maintained hypothesis

2001-04-25 Thread Alexander Tsyplakov
The meaning of the term "maintained hypothesis" differs in the literature. I'm not sure which meaning is correct (or more widely used). Can anybody help? I need this for English-Russian dictionary. - Alexander Tsyplakov Novosibirsk State University http

DO THE NUMBERS AND THIS WILL WORK!

2001-04-25 Thread allan_caine
MAKE MONEY USING THE POWER OF THE INTERNET ! ! ! PLEASE READ Bcc: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2001 01:33:43.0750 (UTC) FILETIME=[EE232660:01C0CDF0] Date: 25 Apr 2001 21:33:43 -0400 THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE CAREFULLY. AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV: "Making over

understanding and reading

2001-04-25 Thread dennis roberts
robert dawson has tweaked our imaginations about what might be done with some "group" of students (in psychology for example) who might not be research doer material ... but, who still would benefit from some kind of course or exposure that would help them READ psychology literature that has a

critiquing research

2001-04-25 Thread dennis roberts
many moons ago, a colleague and i put together a course called "critiquing educational research' ... which sounds in part, something like what robert has been circling around now, the purpose of the course was to be better able to look at research that is in one's discipline ... and look at it

compartments

2001-04-25 Thread dennis roberts
the difficulty in discussing new courses and other issues is that ... academe is a compartment system. most institutions have what is labelled as general education ... so that, it is assumed that it is GOOD for an undergraduate to have some from the science compartment, some from the quantitat

Re: "Stats for Poets"

2001-04-25 Thread Jerry Dallal
"Robert J. MacG. Dawson" wrote: > > Can anybody out there who is teaching (or has recently taught) a > stats course at the first year level aimed specifically at non-science > students send me - either by direct mail or through the group, at your > discretion - a brief curriculum/course

Re: "Stats for Poets"

2001-04-25 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Mike Granaas wrote: > > I've been using "Statistics: Concepts and Controversies" by Moore for a > couple of years now and have been happy with it. Lots of exercises that > are of the form: "What do you think about this claim?" (etc) Thanks! That's helpful. Do you have an outl

Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

2001-04-25 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
dennis roberts wrote: > > At 11:35 PM 4/24/01 -0300, Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: > > > Yes. That is, in my experience, students, small dogs, and > > most white > > mice can use a t table, at least for values that actually turn up. > > Interpolating loses a few students and the mice;

Re: ways of grading group participation

2001-04-25 Thread Jay Warner
Well, you sure started a large brush fire! Quick comments: 1)    if the objective is to learn how to function in a group, then giving all the same grade for the work is a good way to empahsize the interdependent nature of a group project. 2)    Yes, some compalin that they did all the work.  They

Re: "Stats for Poets"

2001-04-25 Thread Mike Granaas
I've been using "Statistics: Concepts and Controversies" by Moore for a couple of years now and have been happy with it. Lots of exercises that are of the form: "What do you think about this claim?" Since I teach under the title "Introduction to Research Methods", and know that my students are

Random fields and others...

2001-04-25 Thread Eugene Pronyaev
Hi, All! I'm working with random fields and have some questions. Probably you could help me in my investigations. The questions are: 1. Is there any theorem that establishes on which conditions on mean and covariance of Gaussian random field this field will be Markovian? I know Doob's theorem, th

Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

2001-04-25 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
dennis roberts wrote: > > as for the use of t tables ... or any other ... > > 1. one issue is can the student USE the table ... that is, you specify some > from the table and you want to know if they can find it Yes. That is, in my experience, students, small dogs, and most wh

Random generator with c++

2001-04-25 Thread Davy Paindaveine
Hello, Does anybody know how to generate random observations that are normally distributed, in c++? Thank you. D.P. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are avai

Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

2001-04-25 Thread dennis roberts
as for the use of t tables ... or any other ... 1. one issue is can the student USE the table ... that is, you specify some from the table and you want to know if they can find it 2. another issue is what the student knows about what happens in the table as df changes 3. another issue is whe

Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

2001-04-25 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
"Paul W. Jeffries" wrote: What are > list members views on teaching students to use tables. In the computer > age, tables are an anachronism. The vast majority of students will never > use a t table. Were it only so...

Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

2001-04-25 Thread jim clark
Hi On 25 Apr 2001, Alan McLean wrote: > I agree - although students do need tables in (written) exams... But > we use a computer program called Tuteman in our teaching and testing, so > the natural way to find critical values or p-values is via the computer > - we use Excel mainly. In general

Re: poisson process

2001-04-25 Thread Konrad Halupka
burt wrote: > > It seems that someplace in my statistical education I read or heard one > of my teachers make the following statement: When the occurrence of rare > events follows a Poisson process, then a characteristic of this process > is as follows: Usually there are long periods of time bet