Re: Texts: Factor Analysis

2000-04-05 Thread Gottfried Helms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are your favorite book(s) on factor analysis? What do you think of R. Gorsuch's book? My favorite is Stan Mulaik "The foundations of factor analysis". It is comprehensive and still straightforward from the introduction to all covered themes. I have tried

Re: Question re Wilcoxon

2000-04-05 Thread Robert Dawson
S. Shapiro wrote: I have a set of six numbers, as follows: 6.77597 7.04532 7.17026 7.13235 7.56820 6.97272 which represent results from six different measurements of the same thing in six different trials, one measurement per trial. (As a consequence of measurement the samples

6 NJ short courses seminars

2000-04-05 Thread Barron, Alfred [PRI]
Springtime for Statistics (April-May-June) Six New Jersey Area announcements [1] Logistic Regression Short Course [2] Clinical Trials Short Course [3] Multiple Comparison Exact Inference Short Courses [4] Bates' Nonlinear Regression Short Course [5]

norm pdf

2000-04-05 Thread dennis roberts
how come when you do a pdf on a unit norm distribution and one say, where mean is 100 and sd = 15 ... you get different pdf values along the Y axis??? is it just because the lenght of the continuity along X is narrower/wider? 0.030+ - C2 - * * *

Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov vs Chi Square

2000-04-05 Thread Madewell
The original question said "to compare distributions to sets of data" so I believe the discussion concerns the "Goodness of Fit" tests. The power should be directly related to the sample size vs. test method used. I plan to run some tests to investigate this. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Texts: Factor Analysis

2000-04-05 Thread dennis roberts
go to http://www.sagepub.com/ search on ... factor analysis ... some nice short books here At 03:06 PM 4/5/00 +0200, Gottfried Helms wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are your favorite book(s) on factor analysis? What do you think of R. Gorsuch's book? My favorite is Stan

Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov vs Chi Square

2000-04-05 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:14:29 GMT, Madewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original question said "to compare distributions to sets of data" so I believe the discussion concerns the "Goodness of Fit" tests. Oh, then the proper answer, at the start, by whoever responded then, would have been to

comparing variances

2000-04-05 Thread yorgiv
I am not experienced statistician but I have one simple question. I have 2 continuous variables from different populations. One has a mean of 50 one has a mean of 0.3. When I graph their distributions the first one (with 50 mean) appears to be less variable than the second (with mean of 0.3).

Re: Texts: Factor Analysis

2000-04-05 Thread Gene Gallagher
For the natural sciences, try Reyment Joreskog Applied Factor analysis for the natural sciences, Cambridge Univ Press. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are your favorite book(s) on factor analysis? What do you think of R.

Re: norm pdf

2000-04-05 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, dennis roberts wrote: how come when you do a pdf on a unit norm distribution and one say, where mean is 100 and sd = 15 ... you get different pdf values along the Y axis??? is it just because the lenght of the continuity along X is narrower/wider? Area under a pdf,

Opensource web reporting needs statistics experts

2000-04-05 Thread cfletche
I've started an opensource project(software that is free to the public) to build an web tracking package that competes with expensive commercial packages like Accrue or Datasage. One important factor is statistical analysis. We would love to include statistical prediction and try to identify

Re: comparing variances

2000-04-05 Thread Donald F. Burrill
Yorgi V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: My question is -- can I somehow systematically compare the variability of two samples from different populations? The short answer is "Yes". Your comments about the disparate shapes of the two distributions, however, leads one to wonder whether the