Outlier Detection

2001-06-01 Thread Yves de Lombaerde
Dear All, I have to prepare an short article over the Outlier Dectection in univariate time series. Could you send pointers, refs etc .Especialy I aml looking for original articles or refs, not refs to refs. Aside Tramo and Census' RegArima, can you refer to existing software. Thanks Yves de L

Re: old cars

2001-06-01 Thread Glen Barnett
dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > if anyone enjoys old cars ... really old cars ... and needs a 5 minute > break from your daily work tedium ... have a look at > > http://community.webshots.com/user/dennisroberts111 > > taken memori

Re: Average Distance to nearest neighbour

2001-06-01 Thread MathCraft Consulting
"Sumeet Dua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message Z3eR6.22973$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:Z3eR6.22973$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Maybe this helps. If the radius of the set of points is r , and assuming > random distribution of points. > The average shortest distance between points in r/(2*sqrt(n)). This

8th Meeting of the "Société Francophone de Classification"

2001-06-01 Thread Jean Vaillant
Your help with circulating this announcement locally would be very much appreciated. We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message. ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 8th Meeting of the "Soci

Re: Ninety Percent above Median

2001-06-01 Thread W. D. Allen Sr.
"A couple of colleagues have already pointed out how the statement you so scornfully cite might in fact be true; ...". Well, we have already seen that to be the case with "professional" educators. However, for statisticians the definition of "median" is still that element or [ the mean of two ad

Re: Ninety Percent above Median

2001-06-01 Thread Shareef Siddeek
Hi Allen, There is a small error in the median explanation at your web http://ri.essortment.com/medianmiddlest_rtiy.htm Your note says: "In the data set {2, 3, 4, 5}, the median value falls between the 2nd and 3rd value. We add these two values (2 + 3) and divide by 2. The median value of

Re: Average Distance to nearest neighbour

2001-06-01 Thread MathCraft Consulting
Just an addendum to the previous post... I was curious to see how being close to an edge would affect the distance to the nearest neighboring point. One would expect that, with the direction to the nearest point restricted -- allowing fewer chances for close points -- that the nearest neighbor w

Need Good book on foundations of statistics

2001-06-01 Thread jonesrob
Can anyone refer me to a good book on the foundations of statistics? I want to know of the limitations, assumptions, and philosophy behind statistics. A discussion of how the quantum world may have different laws of statistics might be a plus. R. Jones Emporia State U. - Posted via NewsOn

Re: Ninety Percent above Median

2001-06-01 Thread dennis roberts
w d allen seems not to be happy with the feedback that a few of us sent, in response to his (apparent) blasting of "educators" and their understanding of the median ... sorry ... but, as don pointed out ... you provided NO context whatsoever in your blast ... as to what was said when, and by

Re: standard error of r and expected r

2001-06-01 Thread James H. Steiger
Peter, your questions are excellent ones. To many people studying the literature on correlational methods, as represented in standard social science texts, there appear to be serious inconsistencies, usually stemming from aspects that are not rendered clearly, or, indeed, incorrectly. I hope the

Re: fit-ness

2001-06-01 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <9f58hq$2bbfq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexis Gatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >a basic question from a MSc student in England. First of all, yeah I read >the FAQ and I didnt find anything answering my question, which is fairly >simple: I am trying to analyse how well several mathematic

Golden Jubilee Quranic Exhibition

2001-06-01 Thread qari hilal
Golden Jubilee Quranic Exhibition from June 2 KARACHI: The ancient, extremely rare and modern masterpieces of the Holy Qur'aan will be displayed at a three-day exhibition being held at Khalikdina Hall, Karachi from June 2. This is announced on Thursday by Abdul Razzak Tasty of Memon Khidmat Foru

linear regression with missing data

2001-06-01 Thread Francis Dermot Sweeney
Say I have three set of data x,y,z. x and z consist of data over the time interval (0,T), but for y, there is "missong" data, and we only have data on y on (S,T) with 0http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

Re: linear regression with missing data

2001-06-01 Thread Donald Burrill
On 1 Jun 2001, Francis Dermot Sweeney wrote: > Say I have three set of data x,y,z. I'll assume that you mean "I have three variables, x, y, z." (One cannot in general perform a regression analysis unless the variables of interest are in the same data set, not in three separate data sets.)

Re: Ninety Percent above Median

2001-06-01 Thread Socspace
Gd one WDA  For a while there you really had me going.    You see, at first I was aghast at the stuff you were saying.   But then I caught on.  You are actually an adept at what has been called the gentle art of internet trolling..   For the benefit of those who (unlike WDA and me) are