jim clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> in the journal's 1995 volume, was exactly the same sentence:
>> "Every year since 1950, the number of American children
>> gunned down has doubled."
>
>In the article he describes tracking down the original
>basis for the statistic. At some point, doubling
Warren Sarle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics
> By JOEL BEST
[snip]
> So the prospectus began with this (carefully footnoted) quotation: "Every year
> since 1950, the number of American children gunned down has doubled." I had
> been invited to serv
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
>
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
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
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
California Press
Telling the Truth About Damned
the notion of being able to fix errors in manuscripts that have NOT yet
been published is one thing ... but, the ability to correct glaring errors
in manuscripts PUBLISHED is quite a different story. i have a paper (that i
can't find at the moment ... from either chemistry or physiology i thi
Jerry Dallal wrote:
A few years ago (many years ago?) someone wrote an
article for the
newsletter of the newsletter of the ASA Section on Teaching
Statistics in the Health Sciences in which he described having each
student select a published article "at random" and check for
internal consistenc
Herman Rubin wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> >> As an example, there was an article in a recent issue of an APA journal
> >> where the researchers randomly assigned participants to one of six
>
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 ass
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerry Dallal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>> As an example, there was an article in a recent issue of an APA journal
>> where the researchers randomly assigned participants to one of six
>> conditions in a 2x3 factorial desi
A few years ago (many years ago?) someone wrote an article for the
newsletter of the newsletter of the ASA Section on Teaching
Statistics in the Health Sciences in which he described having each
student select a published article "at random" and check for
internal consistency. Round-off errors we
In a message dated 4/28/01 2:59:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< The earlier responders make some good points but..I have seen plotted
regression lines when the rsquare was 0.005, scatterplots where two
"populations were separated by a line that makes a southern ge
The earlier responders make some good points but..I have seen plotted
regression lines when the rsquare was 0.005, scatterplots where two
"populations were separated by a line that makes a southern gerrrymander
envious, where clusters had fewer than 3 members, etc. etc. The whole thing
would
I think it's a normal situation. Journals have articles with errors.
Textbooks have errors. There nothing that can be done, because it's only
natural to make mistakes. You should feel good that you can see those
things, but be ready that some day they will find an error in your paper.
Vadim
On
even in the best journals, you will find crap ... or, serious mistakes ...
consider the following:
1. editors don't always have an easy time finding appropriate reviewers to
review papers
2. reviewing papers (generally speaking) is a gratis activity ...
3. reviews are done usually in one's spar
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Lise DeShea wrote in part:
> I teach statistics and experimental design at the University of
> Kentucky, and I give journal articles to my students occasionally with
> instructions to identify what kind of research was conducted, what the
> independent and dependent varia
List Members:
I teach statistics and experimental design at the University of Kentucky,
and I give journal articles to my students occasionally with instructions
to identify what kind of research was conducted, what the independent and
dependent variables were, etc. For my advanced class, I
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