ROTATING GRAPHICS

2001-05-04 Thread Kenneth McKenzie
Hi We have demonstrations depicting the internal actions of the Maillard rotary engine, and the first Wankel engine design that has the chamber rotating around the piston. We also have the Starapex engine, the Starluck engine, the Starnine engine and the Crankwheel engine that have their interna

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2001-05-04 Thread dennis roberts
i don't want folks to think i am against research ... i am not. but, i do honestly think that we do too much of it ... we force too much to be done ... we force "publishing" and, the only real criterion is ... were you able to get it published (in a decent outlet of course)? not only that ... m

Re: Omissions in Journal Articles

2001-05-04 Thread fharrell
Neil, You raise some excellent questions, and this has bugged me for some time. SAS's creation of "least squares means" (what a terrible name) has hurt this area. I prefer to always refer to such quantities as "predicted values" and to explain what they are predicted for. And I usually predict

Re: Analysis of a time series of categorical data

2001-05-04 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 3 May 2001 09:46:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Mark Sharp; Ext. 476) wrote: > If there is a better venue for this question, please advise me. - an epidemiology mailing list? [ snip, much detail ] > Time point 1Time point 2Time point 3Time point 4 Hosts > Inf

Re: Q: Arithmetic, Harmonic, Geometric, etc., Means

2001-05-04 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Stanley110 wrote: > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > What is the physical significance or meaning regarding a manufacturing process > whose output over an extended period of time has the same value for the > arithmetic, geometric and harmonic mean of a property, its purity, for > example? ... > Or

RE: (none)

2001-05-04 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Donald Burrill writes: >Thanks, Rich. My semi-automatic crap detector hits DELETE when it sees >things like this anyway; but... did you notice that although SamFaz >(or whoever, really) claims to cite a bill passed by the U.S. Congress >he she or it is actually writing from Canada? >

Q: Arithmetic, Harmonic, Geometric, etc., Means

2001-05-04 Thread Stanley110
Ladies and Gentlemen, What is the physical significance or meaning regarding a manufacturing process whose output over an extended period of time has the same value for the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic mean of a property, its purity, for example? What is the physical significance or mean

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2001-05-04 Thread dennis roberts
At 09:44 AM 5/4/01 -0700, Carl Huberty wrote: > Why do articles appear in print when study methods, analyses, > results, and conclusions are somewhat faulty? [This may be considered as > a follow-up to an earlier edstat interchange.] My first, and perhaps > overly critical, response is

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2001-05-04 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
> Carl Huberty wrote: > > Why do articles appear in print when study methods, analyses, > results, and conclusions are somewhat faulty?... I can think of two > reasons: 1) journal editors can not or do not send manuscripts to > reviewers with statistical analysis expertise; and 2) manuscri

No Subject

2001-05-04 Thread Carl Huberty
Why do articles appear in print when study methods, analyses, results, and conclusions are somewhat faulty?  [This may be considered as a follow-up to an earlier edstat interchange.]  My first, and perhaps overly critical, response  is that the editorial practices are faulty.  I don't f

Re: errors in journal articles

2001-05-04 Thread jim clark
Hi On 3 May 2001, Warren Sarle wrote: > Joel Best is a professor of sociology and criminal > justice at the University of Delaware. This essay is > excerpted from _Damned Lies and Statistics: > Untangling Numbers From the Media, Politicians, and > Activists_, just published by the University of >

Re: Combinometrics

2001-05-04 Thread Jerry Dallal
Herman Rubin wrote: > I also doubt > whether learning to compute answers gives any insight > into the concepts, except for those with good research > potential, and even there it tends to confuse. It depends on what "learning to compute" means. (*I'm* saying this in repsonse to a comment from Pr

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Jerry Dallal
Herman Rubin wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > > >Would like to ask the design of experiment gurus to help me with the > >following questions: > > >1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? > > The computations get easier. Als

Re: a problem in probability

2001-05-04 Thread Ronghua Zhang
Yes, I'v already thought of that. But the complement probability is also hard for me. Can you help me? ronghua = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available

Inference by Bootstrapping

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Robbins
I am fooling around with a paper that talks about how to "do inferences, like constructing confidence intervals, with the bootstrap method for inference... because the assumption of i.i.d erros is reasonable... also... it is unlikely that the cumulative distribution functions of our estimators are

Re: Combinometrics

2001-05-04 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <9ctkri$fjvug$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neville X. Elliven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David Heiser wrote: >>We seem to have a lot of recent questions involving combinations, >>and probabilities of combinations. >>I am puzzled. >>Are these concepts no longer taught as a fundamental starting

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >Would like to ask the design of experiment gurus to help me with the >following questions: >1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? The computations get easier. >2. which problems may I encounter if I use n

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Bob Wheeler
Since other respondents have given the "official" answer which is an oversimplification that has become dogma, and is too often offered up without adequate explanation. For the most part the desire for absolute orthogonality comes from the pre-computer era when it was difficult to design and anal

Re: Estimating methods in SEM

2001-05-04 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kai Arzheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodney Carr) writes: >> The problem I am having is that I'm not sure what estimating method >> to use. EQS implements a number of different methods (Maximum >> Likelihood, Least Squares, GLS, etc). Unf

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Warren F. Kuhfeld
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff) writes: |> 1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? |> |> 2. which problems may I encounter if I use non-orthogonal design ? Check out: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/tnote/tnote_stat.html Specifically: http://ftp.sas.co

Re: Estimating priors for Bayesian analysis

2001-05-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4 May 2001 04:11:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hopkins) wrote: >For example, I might believe that the individual's true score is 70 units, >and that the likely range is +/- 10 units. So what describes >"likely"? 90%, 95%, 99%...? Do Bayesians have any validated way to work >that out?

Re: errors in journal articles

2001-05-04 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
When I read the > quotation, I assumed the student had made an error in copying it. I went to the > library and looked up the article the student had cited. There, in the > journal's 1995 volume, was exactly the same sentence: "Every year s

Re: errors in journal articles

2001-05-04 Thread Thom Baguley
Warren Sarle wrote: It reminds me of the recent headline in The Sunday Times (a leading UK newspaper) that taxes had tripled under the present UK government. As a bonus, the tax level when the government took power, and reported in the article as part of the argument, was something around 37% of

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Francois Bergeret
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --DBD3C05A63C0BFD0F8B0E075 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello, Orthogonality is very important because it is an insurance that the estimation of the effect of a factor is not dependant or the o

Estimating priors for Bayesian analysis

2001-05-04 Thread Will Hopkins
I've gone to a lot of trouble to add Bayesian adjustment in a spreadsheet for estimating confidence limits of an individual's true score when the subject is assessed with a noisy test. I specify the prior belief simply by stating a best guess of the true score, and its x% likely limits, with

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Donald Burrill
Short answers below; which may or may not adequately address the lurking questions you had in mind. On Fri, 4 May 2001, Jeff wrote: > Would like to ask [for] help with the following questions: > > 1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? So that results for each factor, and each

Re: Please help

2001-05-04 Thread Donald Burrill
I rather think the problem is not adequately defined; but that may merely reflect the fact that it's a homework problem, and homework problems often require highly simplifying assumptions in order to be addressed at all. See comments below. On Fri, 4 May 2001, Adil Abubakar wrote: > My name

Re: Combinometrics

2001-05-04 Thread Neville X. Elliven
David Heiser wrote: >We seem to have a lot of recent questions involving combinations, >and probabilities of combinations. >I am puzzled. >Are these concepts no longer taught as a fundamental starting point in stat? I haven't seen a Combinatorics course in a college class schedule in nearly twe

Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Jeff
Hello, Would like to ask the design of experiment gurus to help me with the following questions: 1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? 2. which problems may I encounter if I use non-orthogonal design ? Thank you in advance. -- Jeff

Re: a problem in probability

2001-05-04 Thread Neville X. Elliven
Ronghua Zhang wrote: >Suppose there exist N distinct objects, each time get n objects out >of them(these n objects must be different) and then put them back, >keep sampling for k rounds, and at last, what is the >probability of at least x distinct objects have been >selected at least once? Look