On 5 Mar 2003 07:00:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote: > > > build a 95% confidence interval ... see what you see ... and be done with it >
If I were reading the report, I would not be satisfied to know that the tiny sample of *10* did not "differ at the 5% level." I would hope for no-trends, and I would expect that the experimenter would tell me whatever it was that came out worst. Anything at the 10% level? which is the 5%, one-tailed, if someone pushes the question. (That does not answer the question of whether the experimenter should continue with the first 10 if they looked "somewhat bad" or should draw another 10 in order to perform the expensive followup.) -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
