--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset available to > > > other researchers to test the hypothesis via "their" approach to > > > model specification and selection. > > > > Just to make sure several different things don't > > get conflated here (again): > > > > The raw data--the crime and other stats--used in *both* > > studies, however, were publicly available. > > Well, just to make sure several different things don't > get conflated here (again): > > You seem to equate public availabilty of FBI crime stats with all "the > raw data .. were publically available". First, there is a differnece > between publically available and easily accessable. As I have stated > in prior posts, the weekly FBI stats are not available on line prior > to 1995. While they are probably is some library, finding them > copying them, and keyboard entering them into a research data set > is time consuming and restricive -- and not what is meant by "make > the full original dataset available to other researchers". > > Second the research data set includes much more than crime stats. It > includes weather data (again hard to find 12-20 years later in a > weekly form) and the socio-economic and LE data used as control > variables. Locating such data is more difficult than obtaining the > crime statistics which are per your words, "publically available".
Hmm, let me see...gee, I could have sworn I wrote "crime AND OTHER STATS." <looking up at the top> Yes, actually that is exactly what I wrote (minus the caps for emphasis so you wouldn't miss those words again). Your various quibbles aside, my *point* was that the data were not proprietary, as I went on to say (and you snipped). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
