Re: [R] A question on Statistics

2018-07-01 Thread Christofer Bogaso
I derive posting guide from https://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html I am imagining a distribution where mean is zero but there are few large observations in the positive side which are not very frequent. On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 8:29 PM Bert Gunter wrote: > From the posting guide: > >

Re: [R] A question on Statistics

2018-07-01 Thread Bert Gunter
>From the posting guide: "*R-help* is intended to be comprehensible to people who want to use R to solve problems but who are not necessarily interested in or knowledgeable about programming." This says to me that R-help is for general questions about R programming, not statistics, though I

Re: [R] A question on Statistics

2018-07-01 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hi, I could post in StackExchange for sure, however I dont think R-help posting guide discourage asking a question about Statistics, atleast formally. I could further clarify if my question is not elaborate enough. And many apologies if it is very trivial - however still I am looking for 2nd

Re: [R] A question on Statistics

2018-06-30 Thread Hasan Diwan
Christofer, On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 at 12:54, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > You should use Stack Exchange for questions about statistics. Specifically, https://stats.stackexchange.com/ -- H -- OpenPGP: https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1 If you wish to request my time,

Re: [R] A question on Statistics

2018-06-30 Thread Jeff Newmiller
You should use Stack Exchange for questions about statistics. You should also think a bit before you post, regardless of where. You are the one who described this as a highly asymmetric distribution, and didn't say anything about it being centered at zero. You already answered your own

[R] A question on Statistics

2018-06-30 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hi, I have a quick question on Statistical distribution as follows, hoping Statisticians here would give me very insightful feedback. Say, I have a large sample from a highly asymmetric distribution ranging from -Inf to +Inf. Now I wish to calculate sample X1 and X2 within which middle 70%

[R] A question on Statistics

2010-12-26 Thread Maithula Chandrashekhar
I am not a pure Statistics background and therefore please forgive me if this question (which is not R related either) is too trivial. In many Statistics literature I find following statement: restrictions in different coefficients matrices have to be imposed to ensure uniqueness of the

Re: [R] A question on Statistics

2010-12-26 Thread Bert Gunter
Maithula: On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Maithula Chandrashekhar m.chandrashekhar1...@gmail.com wrote: I am not a pure Statistics background and therefore please forgive me if this question (which is not R related either) is too trivial. In many Statistics literature I find following