Re: They look different; are they really?

2001-11-02 Thread John Kane
Gus Gassmann wrote: Stan Brown wrote: Another instructor and I gave the same exam to our sections of a course. Here's a summary of the results: Section A: n=20, mean=56.1, median=52.5, standard dev=20.1 Section B: n=23 mean=73.0, median=70.0, standard dev=21.6 Now, they

Re: They look different; are they really?

2001-11-02 Thread John Kane
Stan Brown wrote: Jill Binker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in sci.stat.edu: Even assuming the test yields a good measure of how well the students know the material (which should be investigated, rather than assumed), it isn't telling you whether students have learned more from the class itself,

Re: Can I Use Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test for Correlated Clustered Data??

2001-11-02 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Chia C Chong wrote: I am a beginner in the statistical analysis and hypothesis. I have 2 variables (A and B) from an experiment that was observed for a certain period time. I need to form a statistical model that will model these two variables. As an initial step, I plot the histograms of

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Re: They look different; are they really?

2001-11-02 Thread John Kane
Jon Miller wrote: Stan Brown wrote: You assume that it was my section that performed worse! (That's true, but I carefully avoided saying so.) Section A (mine) meets at 8 am, Section B at 2 pm. Not only does the time of day quite possibly have an effect, but since most people prefer

Re: p value

2001-11-02 Thread Chris R
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote most software will compute p values (say for a typical two sample t test of means) by taking the obtained t test statistic ... making it both + and - ... finding the two end tail areas in the relevant t distribution ... and report that as p for

Conference: Deming Applied Statistics, NJ, Dec 10-13

2001-11-02 Thread Alfred Barron
ANNOUNCING... The 57th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics Atlantic City, New Jersey December 10-13, 2001 For details, registration costs, etc. see http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~kghosh/deming01/ The

Re: edstat-digest V2000 #545

2001-11-02 Thread Pam .
The best non-parametric book I know of is Marasculio and McSweeny. It is out of print so if you find a copy copy it. It is a classic Pamela Auburn, PhD 2041 Branard Houston TX 77098 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (edstat-digest) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: edstat-digest V2000 #545

2001-11-02 Thread Pam .
The best non-parametric book I know of is Marasculio and McSweeny. It is out of print so if you find a copy copy it. It is a classic Pamela Auburn, PhD 2041 Branard Houston TX 77098 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (edstat-digest) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: p value

2001-11-02 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
Dennis wrote: it is NOT correct to say that the p value (as traditionally calculated) represents the probability of finding a result LIKE WE FOUND ... if the null were true? that p would be ½ of what is calculated. Jones and Tukey (A sensible formulation of the significance

RE: p value

2001-11-02 Thread dennis roberts
At 05:06 PM 11/2/01 -0500, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: Dennis wrote: it is NOT correct to say that the p value (as traditionally calculated) represents the probability of finding a result LIKE WE FOUND ... if the null were true? that p would be ½ of what is calculated. Jones