On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> wrote: > > (Statistics is what stuffy professors > do, I just look at my data and try to > figure out what it means.)
Often those stuffy professors have a reason to do so. When they want an objective view on the data for example, or an objective measure of the significance of a hypothesis. But you're right, who cares about objectiveness these days? It doesn't sell you a paper, does it? Cheers Joris -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.