Re: Edstat: I. J. Good and Walker

the number of options you have in deciding what courses you can take during your freshperson year in college ... MINUS ONE the minus one is for the option of 0 courses - droping out.  It is presumed that you have already decided to stick it out.   :) Cheers, Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist W

Re: Consistency quotation

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Re: Marijuana

Brother!  That topic sure drew a crowd!  :) Paul Jones wrote: There was some research recently linking heart attacks with Marijuana smoking. [big snip] Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262

Re: sample size and sampling error

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Re: Standardized testing in schools

ompanies > > who sell these tests have histories of making mistakes. > > (But, do they have the same history of responding so badly?) > > > > -- > > Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html > > ==

Re: (none)

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

levels in a multiplicative fashion. when impurities get down to low levels, all kinds of interesting things can happen. Steve's is good advice. > > Steve Simon, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Standard Disclaimer. > STATS: STeve's Attempt to Teach Statistics. http://www.cmh.edu/stat

Re: probability and repeats

t position has 3 possibles, same with 2nd pos, and 3rd. Total: 3*3*3 = 27 If you set them out in a careful sequence, it will become more evident: 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 3 2 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 etc. -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Raci

Re: errors in journal articles

at many or most of the articles which contained enough data to analyze in a language research archival journal drew conclusions with acceptable alpha levels, but with severely weak power - beta - levels.  But hey, they presented data.  Let's not knock their efforts too hard... Jay -- Jay W

Re: Help me an idiot

- at this early hour (4:00 am local time) I sense something seriously invalid. Best go back to listing all the possibles. Keep in mind that for a permutation, the empty (absent item) slot is different, if it is empty ketchup or empty mustard. then see if the combination equation can cover them.

RE: Compartments, - [Fwd: [nsf01104] - Program Announcements & Information]

I think these people have the same problem with 'compartmentalizing' that Dennis and others have WRT academic departments. I haven't checked it out yet, but perhaps there is a solution here. If we can vertically integrate R & E (education), perhaps we can horizontally integrate some of the E in

Re: ways of grading group participation

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Re: Correlation of vectors

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Re: normal approx. to binomial

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Regression toward the Mean - search question

ad it - it was large. But I can't find the reference to it, either. Bummer! Can anyone figure out who and what article I'm referring to, and re-point me to it? Very much obliged to you all, Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Raci

Re: probability textbook

lass.  Whether that interaction can be expressed or developed in a textbook, a fundamentally one-way communication, might be a subject for debate. Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262)

Re: can you use a t-test with non-interval data?

ifferences there can be harder, and a small change there is more significant than a small change in the middle. references?sorry. I've only done it a couple times, and know it works - it gets me predictions that pan out in confirmation. treating the data as nominal, instead of interval, may

Re: Patenting a statistical innovation

of a certain company, I > invent some new algorithm, then my company has a vested interest in > making sure that the algorithm remains its property and that no one > else uses it, especially a competitor. Thus, it is advantageous for my > employer to patent such inventions. In this vi

Re: basic stats question

ned experiments, etc. The presentation, however, does not make them independent. One has to check the physical system behavior to assure that. 4)I may have shot far wider than your intended mark, in which case, sorry for the interruption. Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Cons

Re: two sample t

t depends on the consequences of deviation - decision 'theory' etc. If you take a non-dichotomous view of 't' testing, the question becomes immaterial, anyway. Cheers, Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216

Re: Type III errors

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Re: Determing Best Performer (fwd)

ell.  Hence, roll a die may be equally related to the desired outcome, and cost a lot less. Now, if you can show, with numbers and data, that your assessment rating of 'performance' and 'performance' measured by another method are closely related, then show us all.  Please.

Re: Regression analysis.

ty who teach at a particular level will skew the results. > > Thanks! > Joe Meyer > > > f INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > = > > > -- Jay Wa

Re: Hypothesis Testing where General Limit Theorem doesn't hold?

ibutions that do not converge properly are not included, and they may fall under the CLT's power, too. If your dist. is clearly not normal, but looks log normal or the like, consider a transformation on the raw data. -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Gr

Re: Determing Best Performer

'instrument' get measures of what the boss _really_ cares about, or an honest indicator of same? Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX:(262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: careers in statistics

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Re: Statistics is Bunk

tenance. At the very edge of understanding, there is a zone of intuition, not objectivity. A miraculous place. Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX:(262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Significance Testing in Experiments

in these situations seem to > go over just fine in journals. Appreciate your clarification of the issue. > > Regards > > Brett How would you design a study, using a Baysian approach? Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Green Bay Road Racine, WI

Re: Excel Graphics

sympathize with economic concerns, but if your archival journal publisher specifies a format, it darn well better be a valid one!  Also, I once dealt with a book publisher who used an old version of Word for the editors, and liked the word portion material in flat text form. Jay

Re: Recommend multiple regression text please

erstand if this is an issue, although an experienced DoE person (statistician or otherwise) can often help dig out the phenomena. If you are willing to handle the real thing, I'd suggest Box & Draper, 1987, Empirical Model Building & Response Surfaces. A bit heavy on the math,

Re: Two sided test with the chi-square distribution?

different then. [snip the rest] Even Sir Isaac Newton, in correspondence with his publisher, discussed what we call 'massaging' of data until it fit right. Nonetheless, I spend a fair amount of time in an UG metallurgy lab emphasizing that _they_ cannot adjust and discard embarrassing

Re: statistics question

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Re: Group Level Data - Proportion of Group Movement

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Re: Levels of measurement.

11794-2500 consider a single example. If the amount you receive as a raise in salary is exactly equal to the amount your child care bill increases, and they both get announced to you on the same day, it ain't a raise. Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. North Gr