Re: multivariate techniques for large datasets

2001-06-18 Thread Art Kendall
you might want to go to http://www.pitt.edu/~csna/ and then cross-post your question to CLASS-L The Classification Society meeting this weekend had a lot of discussion of these topics. My first question is whether you intend to interpret the clusters? If so, what is the nature of the 500

Re: Probability Of an Unknown Event

2001-06-18 Thread Art Kendall
The only time I can think of this being meaningful is in determining what size sample to draw. If we don't have any prior information about what the proportion of events in a population have a particular characteristic (the probability of a characteristic), then we assume the worse-case (widest

Re: errors in journal articles

2001-05-01 Thread Art Kendall
I concur. It doesn't make sense as it stands. Was one of the factors between subjects and one within subjects? If that is so, the df for the interaction effect would be more than for the between subjects factor. Assuming the the 2 level factor was a between subjects factor, subjects would be

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

2001-04-30 Thread Art Kendall
In my experience, students benefit from the individual and group _production_ of summaries, syndicate notes, and cheat sheets. Reviewing the summaries produced by students gives a teacher feedback on what is or is not understood, and whether the relative emphasis of the lessons _as received_ is