Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Weighted regression seems to me a correct way to >> account for the fact that some observations are >> less reliable than the others. Thus, the comment >> by Rich is confusing for me. Am I wrong? Are >> there more sophisticated ways to include such >> error information in a predictive model? > > - I am glad the subject came up some more. > >I was pointing out that you cannot weight "Survive" differently from >"Not-survive" and change any testing. > >But I am willing to add that you can do weighting for other purposes: >to get fewer errors of one kind. Wholly arbitrary. OK, understand. >> BTW: I am new in this NG. Is s.s.e. a good place >> to discuss questions like the above, or the s.s.m., >> or s.s.c. would be better? >> >For this question, I rank them - >sci.stat.consult, >sci.stat.edu, >sci.stat.math. Thanks a lot for the ranking. Regards, Greg ___ Grzegorz Jan Ciach http://ia.net/~gciach ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
