Matrixer 4.4 is released

2001-11-29 Thread Alexander Tsyplakov
Dear Colleagues, Version 4.4 of Matrixer econometric program was recently released. The following features were added: # Dynamic forecast for Box-Jenkins model (since version 4.3.1) # Powerful capabilities for importing data from text files There are several other improvements and bug fixes.

Re: N.Y. Times: Statistics, a Tool for Life, Is Getting Short Shrift

2001-11-29 Thread Rich Strauss
This has nothing to do with normal distributions, as Robert Dawson noted yesterday. The article I cited makes no mention of normal distributions, and I didn't mean to imply that it did. Rich Strauss At 04:29 AM 11/29/01 +, Jerry Dallal wrote: Rich Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :If the

Re: Need help with a probability problem

2001-11-29 Thread Thom Baguley
Donald Burrill wrote: Then, again, you are asserting that this is not a probability problem but a measuring-skill problem. Your postulate that the subsequent executioners must have reduced probabilities (or success rates) only makes sense if all executioners use the same method of execution:

t vs. z - recapitulation

2001-11-29 Thread Gaj Vidmar
During years of passionate practitioning and round-the-clock chaotic learning in the field of applied statistics, I have been desperately longing to learn the funadamentals of mathematical statistics, as well as start working as statistician. As the later recently came true, I simply had to make

Re: t vs. z - recapitulation

2001-11-29 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Gaj Vidmar wrote: sample size | distribution(s) | population var | appropriate test -- large (say, N30) | normal | known | z (obvious) No, here large is irrelevant. N=1

Re: N.Y. Times: Statistics, a Tool for Life, Is Getting Short Shrift

2001-11-29 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Speaking of normal distributions and cancer clusters, does anybody (a) agree with me that the human race in general has a better feel for the normal distribution than the binomial distribution, and the Poisson is still worse - and (b) know of any experimental evidence for this? That is, my

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Re: fractional factorial design / DOE

2001-11-29 Thread John Fava
Whoops! Sorry, Ken. Made a mistake. You're design is orthogonal (see below). A B C D E F A 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 B 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 C 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 D

Re: fractional factorial design / DOE

2001-11-29 Thread John Fava
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken K.) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Focusing on designs that have resolution V or higher, your only two options are a full factorial (you don't want that) and a half fraction (2^{6-1}). If you six factors are A B C D E F, your design would have 32 runs and

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Normal distribution

2001-11-29 Thread Ludovic Duponchel
If x values have a normal distribution, is there a normal distribution for x^2 ? Thanks a lot for your help. Best regards. Dr. Ludovic DUPONCHEL UNIVERSITE DES SCIENCES DE LILLE LASIR - Bât. C5 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq FRANCE. Phone : 0033 3 20436661 Fax

Re: N.Y. Times: Statistics, a Tool for Life, Is Getting Short Shrift

2001-11-29 Thread Jim Eales
I believe I have seen reference posted here to a teacher who would challenge his students as follows: Do one and only one of the following: 1. flip a coin 200 times and record the outcomes 2. make up the outcomes of 200 coin tosses without ever flipping a coin Turn in in your record of the

Re: Normal distribution

2001-11-29 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:48:48 +0300, Ludovic Duponchel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If x values have a normal distribution, is there a normal distribution for x^2 ? If z is standard normal [ that is, mean 0, variance 1.0 ] then z^2 is chi squared with 1 degree of freedom. And the sum of S

Re: N.Y. Times: Statistics, a Tool for Life, Is Getting Short Shrift

2001-11-29 Thread Jerry Dallal
I didn't think you had. I thought your response was more along the lines of, Speaking of disease clusters Actually, Robert Dawson noted a normal distribution would be unlikely to apply which is along the lines of my I *think* there's an unfortunate use of the word normal here, but I can't

Re: Normal distribution

2001-11-29 Thread Gus Gassmann
Rich Ulrich wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:48:48 +0300, Ludovic Duponchel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If x values have a normal distribution, is there a normal distribution for x^2 ? If z is standard normal [ that is, mean 0, variance 1.0 ] then z^2 is chi squared with 1 degree of

Interpreting p-value = .99

2001-11-29 Thread Stan Brown
On a quiz, I set the following problem to my statistics class: The manufacturer of a patent medicine claims that it is 90% effective(*) in relieving an allergy for a period of 8 hours. In a sample of 200 people who had the allergy, the medicine provided relief for 170 people. Determine

Re: Interpreting p-value = .99

2001-11-29 Thread Gus Gassmann
Stan Brown wrote: On a quiz, I set the following problem to my statistics class: The manufacturer of a patent medicine claims that it is 90% effective(*) in relieving an allergy for a period of 8 hours. In a sample of 200 people who had the allergy, the medicine provided relief for 170

Re: Interpreting p-value = .99

2001-11-29 Thread Dennis Roberts
forget the statement of the null build a CI ... perhaps 99% (which would correspond to your .01 sig. test) ... let that help to determine if the claim seems reasonable or not in this case ... p hat = .85 .. thus q hat = .15 stan error of a proportion (given SRS was done) is about stan error

Re: Interpreting p-value = .99

2001-11-29 Thread Alan McLean
Gus, Stan's two alternatives were correct as stated - they were two one sided tests, not a one sided and a two sided test. Stan, in practical terms, the conclusion 'fail to reject the null' is simply not true. You do in reality 'accept the null'. The catch is that this is, in the research

Re: Normal distribution

2001-11-29 Thread Dick Startz
And to add on to Rich Ulrich's note, if the mean isn't zero, then z^2 is non-central chi-square. -Dick Startz On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:29:47 -0500, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:48:48 +0300, Ludovic Duponchel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If x values have a normal

Re: t vs. z - recapitulation

2001-11-29 Thread Rich Ulrich
- I am just taking a couple of questions in this note - On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:16:24 +0100, Gaj Vidmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] I saw some decent comments about the table; the table was not very useful. z is used with large N as 'sufficiently good' approximation for t. z is used

Re: Normal distribution

2001-11-29 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:37:14 -0400, Gus Gassmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Ulrich wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:48:48 +0300, Ludovic Duponchel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If x values have a normal distribution, is there a normal distribution for x^2 ? If z is standard normal

Optimal filtering question

2001-11-29 Thread Alex Zhu
Hi All, Suppose we have a stochastic processes with an unknown parameter (the parameter is used in a general sense, it may a stochastic mean of the process, then it's current value is also a parameter). We observe the dynamics of this process and update our estimate of this parameter. It