Re: Multiplication Law of Proability Help

2000-01-10 Thread Elliot Cramer
I don't understand why you people are making this so complicated; All he needs to do is draw a Venn diagram

Re: measure dependency

2000-01-10 Thread Elliot Cramer
In sci.stat.consult Lloyd I. Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : of dummy variables for categorical variable model testing? Maybe it was : Kelly, Beggs & McNeil that first suggested this technique. actually it was R.A. Fisher thru use of orthogonal polynomials

Re: Prediction Model Question (long)

2000-01-10 Thread David A. Heiser
>From Burrill and Ulrich's discussion. All this orthagonalization is fine. To me the bottom line is still the residuals and if the model can do a reasonable prediction just outside the data set boundaries. Obviously the different methods and pruning out of variables will give different values of

Re: Distribution generator for simulator in C++

2000-01-10 Thread Dave and Kim Nulton
Quite frankly Robert the details are proprietary. I suppose I could have been more descriptive, but I don't see what the shape of my distribution have to do with what it represents. I have received several email replies with various recommendations. I'll add transforming to the list. Not being

Re: Multiplication Law of Proability Help

2000-01-10 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:46:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The answer they give is ( and I have no idea why ) : > > We will use the C to denote that the student owns a car and D to > represent that the student owns a CD player. > > The events "owning a car" and "owning a CD player" are not m

Re: Multiplication Law of Proability Help

2000-01-10 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if someone would be able to help me out with my > Introduction to Statistics course I am taking. I am having problems > with the following question : > > A survey of 300 senior high school students from St. Albert found that > 180 of

Multiplication Law of Proability Help

2000-01-10 Thread andrew . caton
Hello everyone. I was wondering if someone would be able to help me out with my Introduction to Statistics course I am taking. I am having problems with the following question : A survey of 300 senior high school students from St. Albert found that 180 of them either owned a car or a CD player.

Re: an open review process in Statistics journals?

2000-01-10 Thread Richard A. Beldin, Ph.D.
I once wrote a "hostile review" because the author was bragging about his current work, lots of hyperbole about how it would "revolutionize" something. I wouldn't have minded if the author had known who wrote it, but it could have been uncomfortable had I met him/her later.

Re: measure dependency

2000-01-10 Thread Elliot Cramer
In sci.stat.consult "Rui Jorge Gonalves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... this is the same as eta squared which I mentioned before

Re: Distribution generator for simulator in C++

2000-01-10 Thread Robert Dawson
: Dave Nulton wrote: > I'm writing a simulator in C++. So far I have written a program to collect > data from a database and hope to be able to generate an algorithm to return > a random value with a distribution that matches my real world data. What > I'm finding is that the data is UGLY. In

Re: Prediction Model Question (long)

2000-01-10 Thread Donald F. Burrill
Sorry, this turned out to be rather longer than I'd anticipated. Maybe I should have broken it into parts... On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Rich Ulrich wrote: << There were several earlier messages, and then I thought Don Burrill said most of what needed to be said -- >> [ snip, vario

Re: Help: Posthoc analysis of 2 factor (2 levels each factor) experiment

2000-01-10 Thread JE
Donald, Sorry about the vagueness. You have answered my questions very thoroughly. In response to your questions, On 9 Jan 2000 21:42:51 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald F. Burrill) wrote: >This still does not describe what you used the test ON. Were they simply >pairwise comparisons (treat