Comparison of statistical systems (software)

2001-01-22 Thread Jan
There are plenty of various statistical software. Could you please give advantages the major stat. systems over others and strength and weakness of them. Eg. could you compare SAS, S (S+), SPSS, Minitab, Statgraphics (plus), Matlab, Maple, Mathematica? The software is to be used to help study

WINSTAT for Excel. A problem - has it happened to you too?

2001-01-22 Thread Sergei Gutnikov
Hi, there! The current demo version of Winstat for Excel (www.winstat.com) does not work for me. Whatever data range is selected, the results are based not on the selected data but on some built-in sample data (it is very easy to see instantly, because the sample data are in German). I tried to

Multivariate Analysis

2001-01-22 Thread Ali Javey
You can now conduct free multivariate analysis of your data over the web. Currently you can perform PCA, PCR, PLS, SIMCA, and DWT Denoise. http://chemometrics.odu.edu/ Sincerely, Ali Javey = Instructions for joining and

Re: Comparison of statistical systems (software)

2001-01-22 Thread RCKnodt
Please let's not. This will only results in many individuals sending many e-mails to the list. If there happens to be a web page where someone has put this information together, it would be better for anyone interested to look at that webpage. With all the software out there, and everyone

Re: A much more basic MCAS fallacy?

2001-01-22 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
"Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote: Can anybody possibly believe that a difference of one point in 245.3 can possibly be significant? We're talking about schools with a less than a maybe sixty fourth-graders in them. This just runs against common sense... Didn't somebody say a week or

RE: Problem on the probability of death

2001-01-22 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Apparently, this message did not get through to sci.stat.edu. So I am sending it again. My apologies to anyone who may have seen it twice. Rich Ulrich writes: The Relative Risk for two groups is also familiar, Risk1/Risk2, but it becomes intractable to useful statistics (and misleading, to

I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread ny226
Here is the question: Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim? -- 1. what is the meaning of

new mtb commands listserv

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
well, i guess it is about time that someone spearhead the effort to NOT let the use of minitab commands die ... so, for the time being, that person will be me. today, i have created a new list ... out of the lists.psu.edu system at penn state, called [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE PASS THIS

Average Deviation

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
how often and under what conditions ... might the AVERAGE deviation (AD) be larger for a set of data that has a SMALLER variance/sd (or reversed)? while not really looking at ADs very often, i have a two set set of data now ... that seems to be like that and, it looks strange Row sortver

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
I think SAS and S are not nearly as easy to use. FWIW, I'm convinced SAS *is* as easy as long as you have someone to get you over the initial hurdles. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
You have not given the entire question, but I would guess the motivation behind it goes something like this: You have been shown many measures that might be called an "average"--mean, median, midrange, mode, and so on. You are presented with some artificial data for different makes of cars.

Re: A much more basic MCAS fallacy?

2001-01-22 Thread Gene Gallagher
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J. MacG. Dawson) wrote: "Daniel P. B. Smith" wrote: Can anybody possibly believe that a difference of one point in 245.3 can possibly be significant? We're talking about schools with a less than a maybe sixty fourth-graders in

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Paige Miller
ny226 wrote: Here is the question: Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that their car performed best in this test, which of the "average" discussed so far in this chapter could they use to substantiate this claim? I have to

280 or not

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
At 08:29 PM 1/22/01 +, Gene Gallagher wrote: The scale is set from 200 to 280, but the maximum score that I've seen so far is 257 (Boston Latin Math). The DOE only provides these data as pdf's so it is difficult to find the max. is this a MEAN for a school? could the mean for a school

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Bill Jefferys
In article 94i9b3$2j2$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Ken K." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #S+ - I hear it is becoming very popular with the stat development bunch. #It is easier to do new neat stuff with S+ than with SAS. It appears to be ##more complicated than some others, but as I said I don't have much

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Ken K.
A LOT depends on what kind of analyses you wish to do with the software, the capability level of the user w.r.t. statistics, AND the frequency with which you'll use the software (related to "relearning" how to use the software after an extended absence). I've used a bunch of software in my day.

Re: Statistical Question

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
one thought is this ... the easier the question ... the less likely you will find big differences ... so, you might want to concentrate your "efforts" on items more in the midrange of difficulty or harder ones At 03:05 PM 1/22/01 -0500, Lee Creighton wrote: I have some data to analyze for my

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread dennis roberts
are you saying that the TOTAL question ... lies between the two following lines? At 03:26 PM 1/22/01 -0500, Paige Miller wrote: ny226 wrote: Here is the question: === Car A: 27.930.430.631.431.7 (a) If the manufactureres of car A want to advertise that

Re: I dont know what the question is asking me? Please HELP!

2001-01-22 Thread Z. Taran
ny: this is a designed as a really easy question to o test your understanding of different "averages", whichever are discussed in your textbook: mean (that is arithmetic average), median, apparently, midrange, whatever else (see your textbook). but keep in mind that mode is the value that is

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Ken K.
I don't mean to come across as a stat software expert, but I do have a fair amount of experience with a number of packages, especially SAS, StatGraphics, JMP, and MINITAB. I find MINITAB very easy to use. My engineers have also found it to be easier to come back to after a period of non-use than

Cooperacao Empresarial

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