Re: 120 subjects on 120 occassion: a model ?

2000-10-13 Thread Gaj Vidmar
Dr. Waldman, there seems to be no word from professional statisticians yet, so here's an addenum. Namely, I have overlooked two important aspects of the study; which, hovever, doesn't invalidate the basic idea of pooling individual data over appropriate time-periods. The first aspect are the

Re: 120 subjects on 120 occassion: a model ?

2000-10-13 Thread MJ Ray
"Gaj Vidmar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there seems to be no word from professional statisticians yet, so here's an addenum. This message was posted in many places, so presumably we will get a summary of responses if we care? My own suggestion (mangled by a bad emailer) was to use vector time

RE: 120 subjects on 120 occassion: a model ?

2000-10-13 Thread Magill, Brett
I don't know enough about time series really to provide much advice. However, I have seen methods by which a slope was calculated across time for each subject with the first measurement as the incercept (within subjects). Subsequently, the individual slope was regressed on other factors. Thus,

RE: 120 subjects on 120 occassion: a model ?

2000-10-13 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Hans-Christian Waldmann writes: Now, what am I supposed to do with data from a design giving a T=120 time series for _each_ of 120 subjects ? There has been a controlled study where patients in three independent groups were asked to keep a diary on some outcome variables for ca. 4 months.

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Re: 120 subjects on 120 occassion: a model ?

2000-10-13 Thread Rich Ulrich
- also posted to sci.stat.consult, where the same question showed up. Steve tells how to make the best of the data, making the likely assumptions about the 120 days - On 13 Oct 2000 10:38:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: Hans-Christian Waldmann writes: Now, what am I

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Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-13 Thread Gene Gallagher
As to Observational studies -- http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/~anderson/thompson1.html This is a short article and long bibliography. The title is direct: "326 Articles/Books Questioning the Indiscriminate Use of Statistical Hypothesis Tests in Observational Studies" (Compiled by William

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-13 Thread Chris . Chambers
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry Dallal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) statistical significance usually is unrelated to practice importance. I don't think so. I can think of many examples in which statistical inference plays an invaluable role in practical applications and instrumentation,