trimming data

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Granaas
A colleague has approached me about locating references discussing the trimming of data, with primary emphasis on psychological research. He is primarily interested in books/chapters/articles that emphasize the when and how. I am at a loss on this one and was wondering if anyone could offer a

Re: 3rd degree polynom curve fitting, correlation needed

2001-06-18 Thread Mike Granaas
Judd McClelland, _Data Analysis: A Model Comparison Approch_, chapter 8. MG On 18 Jun 2001, Matti Overmark wrote: Hi group! I´m new to this group, so...just you know. I have fitted a 3 rd degree curve to a sample (least square method), and I want to compare this particular R2 with

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

Re: power,beta, etc.

2001-03-05 Thread Mike Granaas
Okay, I'll chime in a bit here: I like the notion of seperating out the "state of affairs" from probabilities as Don suggests...I've never seen it done this way before, but I have seen some students confused with what should be pretty simple stuff...I will be trying this material as two tables

Re: pizza

2001-02-26 Thread Mike Granaas
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Donald Burrill wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Mike Granaas wrote: Interesting point. Yes, if the Ss do something other than a random guess the binomial model would be violated. The question then becomes what would they do if they are uncertain? I suspect