Re: [R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-26 Thread Greg Snow
I think the IOTT is more a general testing framework rather than a single test (like maximum likelihood, least squares, bootstrap, etc.) so a single function won't capture the whole IOTT. There are already many functions available to do IOTT for many cases (well the user needs to provide the

Re: [R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-25 Thread Michael Dewey
At 00:41 25/05/2011, Greg Snow wrote: The only statistical method that I know of that can be applied to any dataset without further definition of the nature of the data or the question being asked is SnowsCorrectlySizedButOtherwiseUselessTestOfAnything which is found in the TeachingDemos

Re: [R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Snow
How can anyone overlook the intra-ocular trauma test (or sometimes called the inter-ocular concussion test). But the i-o trauma test needs either a small data set or an appropriate graph of the data (or can you look at a dataset of a hundred columns and a million rows and do an intra-ocular

Re: [R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-25 Thread Stephan Kolassa
Dear all, may I suggest the acronym IOTT for the inter-ocular trauma test? Now we just need someone to implement iot.test(). I assume it will appear on CRAN within the next 24 hours. Looking forward to yet another base package, Stephan Am 25.05.2011 23:36, schrieb Greg Snow: How can

Re: [R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-24 Thread Greg Snow
The only statistical method that I know of that can be applied to any dataset without further definition of the nature of the data or the question being asked is SnowsCorrectlySizedButOtherwiseUselessTestOfAnything which is found in the TeachingDemos package for R. However this test is not

[R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-23 Thread Ramnath R
Hi, Anybody know what are the common Standard statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset,and anybody know which of these methods give similar results Ram [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Bolker
Ramnath R vrramnath at gmail.com writes: Hi, Anybody know what are the common Standard statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset,and anybody know which of these methods give similar results Sorry, but this question is the statistical equivalent of how long is a piece of