>Don Taylor wrote: >> >> Based on some primitive work I did early in the year, for sufficient >> sample size and with uncorrelated variables, the effect was present for >> some distributions other than uniform. >> >> Someone else later made one posting on this subject, where he said he >> had made some progress on this and had a partial result determining what >> distributions could be used in linear combinations of RV and still be >> able to determine which was the independent RV and which was the linear >> combination. I remember he credited BC at the end of his posting. >> But, I don't remember who made that posting.
I don't know which group of the 3 sci.stat.* groups you were talking about, but I remember looking at double exponential distributions (with positive kurtosis, rather than a uniform distributions negative kurtosis) and getting a reverse CR effect. <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=391b2a44.679260%40news.btinternet.com> . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
