----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: A Scientist Wishes He Was an Economist :) Re: Plus the NY Times Re: The Washington Post Editorial on Iraq
> At 02:47 PM 2/6/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: > > I randomly selected the past 74 years to obtain the > >answer for both the Democrats and the Republicans. > > I find it highly unlikely that the year 1929 was selected randomly. > > What was your methodology? > First year that I've had that was available from BEA. http://www.bea.doc.gov/ If you have a site for earlier in this century, I'd be happy to include that. If you would suggest a different span of years, I'll model that too. But, it should be a fairly long span. On second thought, why don't you run your own stochastic model and we can compare techniques? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
