Ensuring confidentiality

2000-08-03 Thread DavidS9307
I would like to collect data in a school on a survey form where the respondents enter only a code number to identify themselves. I would like the code number to be something that the participants will be able to remember for follow-up data collection in the near future, but I would also like to

2nd and 4th cumulant

2000-08-03 Thread GEORGE HATZICHRISTOS
Hello everybody... I am doing my thesis on feature extraction of digital modulations and I've seen quite a few papers using the 2nd and 4th cumulant as a tool.. Could anyone tell me what is the specific advantage of the 2nd and 4th cumulant in feature extraction?? I would really appreciate your

Re: familywise error

2000-08-03 Thread Donald Burrill
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rich Ulrich wrote: I have a question of my own - I think FAMILY is not, in general, the same as EXPERIMENT. [Thanks to Jerry Dallal for that lovely quote from Rupert Miller!] I have always understood "experimentwise" to refer to post hoc multiple comparisons carried out

Re: t-test normality assumption

2000-08-03 Thread Donald Burrill
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, chris (who, from his e-mail address, clearly does not desire a personal response) wrote: I have a doubt as to what is the assumption for normality in a t-test. Two possibilities: These may perhaps not exhaust the universe of discourse. I think it is for the sample

Re: Ensuring confidentiality

2000-08-03 Thread Donald Burrill
On 3 Aug 2000, DavidS9307 wrote: I would like to collect data in a school on a survey form where the respondents enter only a code number to identify themselves. I would like the code number to be something that the participants will be able to remember for follow-up data collection in

summarizing p-values

2000-08-03 Thread essermc
Hello from Germany, as a part of my dissertation in medicine, I have to summarize some results of clinical trials. My question: By summarizing the results (percentage differences of certain parameters), how can I regard for the different p-values (which are calculated with different tests in the

Re: Ensuring confidentiality

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Lewycky
I've used mother's maiden name (abbreviated if too long or padded if too short)+ birthdate of mother or respondent. Donald Burrill wrote: On 3 Aug 2000, DavidS9307 wrote: I would like to collect data in a school on a survey form where the respondents enter only a code number to identify

Advanced/Specialized S-PLUS Courses

2000-08-03 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
This email will give you details on the following specialized/advanced courses offered by MathSoft, Inc during August 2000 by Dr Frank Harrell: 1) S-PLUS for Statistical Data Analysis 2) Regression Modeling Strategies

JOB: Biometrician II - Fairbanks, Alaska

2000-08-03 Thread Allen E. Bingham
Vacancy: Biometrician II Location: Fairbanks, Alaska Agency:State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Sport Fish Research and Technical Services Unit Position Type: Full-time, permanent Open to: All qualified applicants Monthly

Re: Ensuring confidentiality

2000-08-03 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 03 Aug 2000 06:45:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DavidS9307) wrote: I would like to collect data in a school on a survey form where the respondents enter only a code number to identify themselves. I would like the code number to be something that the participants will be able to remember for

ensuring confidentiality

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Hayden
You must have a different audience than I if you think they can spell other people's names, remember numbers, identify and encode playing cards, know their mother's maiden name and birthdate, etc. The task needs to be one they are capable of and motivated to attempt. Maybe the survey could

Re: ensuring confidentiality

2000-08-03 Thread Peter Lewycky
The original question was how to come up with a unique identification that would be known only to the respondent and would be remembered. As long as they put in 4 Latin characters followed by 6 Arabic numbers (that could pass for a date ... I don't check). Maybe they used their girl friend's name

4 binary vars and moi

2000-08-03 Thread sundor96
Have some more survey data. 4 dichotomous variables involving a deadly force survey, so vars like resist arrest or not, felony or not, death or not. And my haunting 7-point Likert scale of Reasonable to really Unreasonable use of deadly force. Now it gets worse. The person who designed the