Hello I was advised to contact you by Kimberly Rex who works for Dr. Knodt.
Unfortunately I am a bit stuck due to my lack of up to date knowledge of statisitcs (last studied statistics when I did my forestry degree some 18 years ago!!). I have been trying to get advice on an appropriate method of statistical analysis for my proposed MSc research and the statistics department in our university (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland) is very small and the staff are not aware of some of the techniques I am hoping to use. I am proposing to survey intranet managers and ask them to rank the issues that impact most on the way they manage their intranet. I want to test to see if a certain type of intranet (e.g. local government intranet set up 3 years ago) has a particular pattern of ranking issues compared to another type of intranet. I plan to put the issues into appropriate categories so the ranking could be based on the categories (say 3 categories). The allocation of ranks would use pair-wise comparison and geometric means applied to produce normalised ranking (similar to the Analytical Hierarchical Process). I was wondering if you have any suggestions as to appropriate statistical analysis for comparing the ranking against intranet characteristics. The test which springs to mind is the Spearman's Correlation or cluster analysis. Could this be applied in this situation? Cheers TIA Nick Ananin . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
