Frank Tuyl<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, > > I posted this question under .consult before, but no one's responded. > I thought I might find a different group of statisticians under .edu > for this type of question... > > I'm looking at a Binomial example from the wonderful book by Box, Hunter & > Hunter. On p.135 of the mothproofing agents example it is mentioned that > the variance of the transformed score is 1013/n. Why is this? > > I got reasonably close after finding the derivative of the arcsine (I think > that's the kind of thing that's required), but I just can't understand the 1013! > > Regards, > Frank
1013 = (100/Pi)^2; they've changed units, from radians to ??? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
