With cross posting apologies.... What is an "official" definition and etymological origin of the word
skedastic or is it skidastic? or scedastic? I just tried to look this up and no size of hard copy dictionary I have lists any of the spellings I can guess, nor is it in the index of my meanest stat books. I thought it was of Greek origin, meaning variation or variable or random variable. I thought it was applied to the concept of a population standard deviation, as a replacement for 'standard deviation.' But now that thought is being questioned. So what does the word mean, anyway? Or did I mean 'stochastic'? Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
