In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Donald Burrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Paul R Swank wrote:
>> I prefer the ocular test myself.
>Were you referring to the intraocular traumatic test?
>(It strikes you between the eyes.)
The only use of alpha-level testing I have seen which
I consider reasonable is of this kind; it is by a
mathematical psychologist. He formulates a model, and
collects data until it is rejected at the .05 level.
Then he uses the ocular test to decide if it is a
reasonable approximation. The significance test is
there so that a few accidentally close observations
does not lead to too quick acceptance.
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are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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