Re: [R] [OT] Modeling strategies

2003-07-21 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I happened to look up Frank Harrell's book Regression Modeling
 Strategies on Amazon.com today.  I was surprised to see that in
 addition to the typical links to related books they had sponsored
 links to sites about How to become a model, Try out for reality TV
 shows, ...
 
 There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the modeling that
 Frank describes.

I noticed the same thing with Carson, Cobelli, and Finkelstein's book
on metabolic modeling.

The Similar items categories can be fun too, especially the Loosely
related group.


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Re: [R] [OT] Modeling strategies

2003-07-21 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
On 21 Jul 2003 08:32:33 -0500
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I happened to look up Frank Harrell's book Regression Modeling
 Strategies on Amazon.com today.  I was surprised to see that in
 addition to the typical links to related books they had sponsored
 links to sites about How to become a model, Try out for reality TV
 shows, ...
 
 There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the modeling that
 Frank describes.

If Amazon is doing their job, they will link these also with 50/50 mixtures of 
bivariate normal distributions with equal variances and differences in means in only 
one coordinate.  :-)

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Frank E Harrell Jr  Prof. of Biostatistics  Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics  Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat

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