On 2 Dec 2003 at 5:49, A. G. McDowell wrote: <snip> > > 1) I like numbers as well as graphs because while a graph can be > wonderfully illuminating it doesn't always tell me whether I am seeing > an insight or an artefact. >
Yes, especially for students and other inexperienced to traion the calibration of the graphs. > 2) Neither Holm-Bonferroni nor the quantile tail significance require > independence of the various p-values, whereas the shape of your QQplot > could be strongly influenced by this. -- A. G. McDowell . . The QQplot shows the marginal distribution, so in the exchangeable case should not be heavily influenced. Of course, if just a group of values are heavily dependent, they could influence the shape. Kjetil Halvorsen > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
