Re: an open review process in Statistics journals?

2000-01-22 Thread Jim
>T.-S. Lim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >: I'd like to hear others' opinions regarding making the review process for >: submitting papers to journals totally open. In my very limited experiences, >: I've encountered referees who don't know what they're talking about. They even >: make silly comm

Re: consulting services for graduate students?

2000-01-22 Thread J. Williams
If the agency plans the research, analyzes the data, and edits the results, what does the student do? Why have a committee waste university time if an agency is going to handle the tough chores? Back in the ice age when I was a graduate student in Ann Arbor, the Ph.D. dissertation was expecte

Re: probability of a boy

2000-01-22 Thread hlau
SciAm July, 1998 p.22 has a short article where they state that the percentage of male births is slowly declining. US:1970 [51.3 %]1990[51.2%] Possible causes could be racial demographics, pollution, or frequency of sex. ["...When couples have sex more often, fertilization is more likely

Re: consulting services for graduate students?

2000-01-22 Thread chendrix8685
I've provided such assistance to several (perhaps many) graduates students; the matter of "how much is too much" has frankly not entered my mind. Nearly all of those who approach me have been exposed to some level of training in statistical methods and/or the design of experiments. However... in

Re: consulting services for graduate students?

2000-01-22 Thread chendrix8685
I've provided such assistance to several (perhaps many) graduates students; the matter of "how much is too much" has frankly not entered my mind. Nearly all of those who approach me have been exposed to some level of training in statistical methods and/or the design of experiments. However... in

probability of a boy

2000-01-22 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Wolfgang Rolke - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jan 22 10:47:51 2000 From: Wolfgang Rolke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I am looking for information (journal article, web site ect.) on the difference in birth rates for boys and girls. Specifically I would like to fi

Re: Sex ratio

2000-01-22 Thread Zina Taran
I actually do remember from my early school days that we were told that there is more boys than girls born and the explanation was to the best of my recollection (we're talking very early classes that teach about people, I was maybe about 10-11 years old) that females are sturdier "by biological d

Re: Sex ratio

2000-01-22 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Wolfgang Rolke wrote: > I am looking for information (journal article, web site ect.) on > the difference in birth rates for boys and girls. Specifically I would > like to find some real data and possible explanations for this > phenomena. [Phenomenon? -- DFB] It se

Re: Sex ratio

2000-01-22 Thread Humberto Barreto
>Hi, > >I am looking for information (journal article, web site ect.) on the >difference in birth rates for boys and girls. Specifically I would like >to find some real data and possible explanations for this phenomena. It >seems to me that this would make a great example for an introductory >

Re: Favour requested

2000-01-22 Thread Mike Wogan
Rahat, With regard to your problem with correlations: > Satisfaction with system reports is correlated with usage: r= -0.02, n=50 > Satisfaction correlated with system performance, r= 0.29, n=100, and > Satisfaction with systems access correlates with usage, r= 0.03, n=60 > Could I

Sex ratio

2000-01-22 Thread Wolfgang Rolke
Hi, I am looking for information (journal article, web site ect.) on the difference in birth rates for boys and girls. Specifically I would like to find some real data and possible explanations for this phenomena. It seems to me that this would make a great example for an introductory stats c