Re: cubic regression

2000-07-01 Thread Paul Velleman
At 4:21 AM -0400 7/1/00, Donald Burrill wrote: As I vaguely recall, I found this years ago in Snedecor and Cochran. ... > Using linear through cubic predictors almost works, but has the >interesting defect of predicting a negative weight for day 6; since one >clearly doesn't want to stop a

Re: lin. reg.

2000-07-01 Thread Humberto Barreto
At 4:16 PM +0200 7/1/00, dekkers wrote: >Hi, > >Does someone know were I can download an EXCEL macro for lin reg? >Besides it calculates the y=bx+a I like the possibility to give Y and >then the macro calculates the x with s. > >thanks > >ad dekkers > > Do you really want a macro? There are four

Re: convolution question

2000-07-01 Thread Jan de Leeuw
A much more general problem. Suppose there are k samples, each from R(0,1), each of size n. Suppose the largest value in sample i is x_i. Then the product z of the x_i is derived by Rider (JASA, 1955). Yours is the (very) special case in which n=1 and k=2. The general result, in TeX, is p(z) = \

lin. reg.

2000-07-01 Thread dekkers
Hi, Does someone know were I can download an EXCEL macro for lin reg? Besides it calculates the y=bx+a I like the possibility to give Y and then the macro calculates the x with s. thanks ad dekkers === This list is open t

cubic footnotes

2000-07-01 Thread Bob Hayden
Re the chicks data posted by Don Burrill... A reference is Snedecor and Cochran, Statistical Methods (7th ed.), Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1980, pp.394-406, which gives an extensive analysis, including fitting an exponential and orthogonal polynomials. There is more on orthogonality

Re: cubic regression

2000-07-01 Thread Donald Burrill
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bob Hayden wrote: > Tom Moore asked... > > Does anyone know of a good example of cubic regression that you'd be > willing to share? and Bob replied with an example. Here's another; Bob, would you forward it to Tom, as I don't have his address? As I vaguely recall, I fo