RE: Linda Woolf: Darling of the NRA

2001-08-05 Thread Pollak, Edward
Will do. And FWIW, I'm sure that the rest of the list took the title of note as it was intended: with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, West Chester Univ. of PA, West Chester, PA 19383 Office: 610-436-3151; Hom

computational formula - sum of squares

2001-08-05 Thread Judith A. Roberts
Another statistics question... Gravetter and Wallnau's "Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences uses what they refer to as the computational formula for the sum of the squared deviations from the mean (SS). The formula is: SS = the sum of the squared scores minus the sum of the scores squared, d

Changing the stats syllabus

2001-08-05 Thread Drnanjo
Hello Out There, I know that probably almost no one is there right now, but wanted to see if I could get some input anyway. Having taught intro stats about a dozen times now, it has not escaped my notice that the students do fairly well on the first two tests (primarily descriptive statistics)