II Convenção de Saúde das Américas

2001-09-24 Thread Circular da Saúde n.19
Title: II Conveno de Sade das Amricas SP/Setembro/2001 Prezado(a) Doutor(a) Já estão abertas as inscrições para o evento internacional mais importante de 2001 realizado no BRASIL, a II Convenção de Saúde das Américas Participe.

Re: definition of metric as a noun

2001-09-24 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Emord Nila Palindrome wrote: It is certainly bad usage, for the following reason: the phrase, the metric, implies that there is *one* metric function on Riemannian geometry, which is false. This reason has nothing to do with distance measure in general, as commonly understood, or

Re: definition of metric as a noun

2001-09-24 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: Actually, there *is* essentially one canonical metric function on Riemannian geometry. In either model of absolute geometry there is, up to a multiplicative constant, only one metric preserved by reflection. In hyperbolic geometry, moreover, there is

Central Limit Therem Was: Re: what type of distribution on this sampling

2001-09-24 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 3BAF09BF.1057.32F8FF@localhost, J.Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The requirement for the CLT to hold is that there should be a mean and st deviation for the background distribution. This I checked in Introduction to the Theory of Statistics by Mood, Graybill and Boes For a Cauchy

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2001-09-24 Thread Jan Winchell
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Simple Median Question

2001-09-24 Thread Edwina Chappell
I have a question about averaging medians. My dataset consists of median values for a variable of interest. To find the average, do I average the medians and get a mean median, or do I find the median of the median values? =

Re: Simple Median Question

2001-09-24 Thread Dennis Roberts
At 12:01 PM 9/24/01 -0500, you wrote: I have a question about averaging medians. My dataset consists of median values for a variable of interest. To find the average, do I average the medians and get a mean median, or do I find the median of the median values? since we don't know how