Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2001-12-19 Thread Jim Snow
"Glen Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Stan Brown wrote: > > But is it worth it? Don't the "easy graders" and :"tough graders" > > pretty much cancel each other out anyway? > > Not if some students only get hard graders and some only get

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2001-12-19 Thread Glen Barnett
Stan Brown wrote: > But is it worth it? Don't the "easy graders" and :"tough graders" > pretty much cancel each other out anyway? Not if some students only get hard graders and some only get easy graders. If all students got all graders an equal amount of time it probably won't matter at all. G

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2001-12-19 Thread Stan Brown
Doug Federman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu: >I have a dilemma which I haven't found a good solution for. I work with >students who rotate with different preceptors on a monthly basis. A >student will have at least 12 evaluations over a year's time. A >preceptor usually will eval

Re: chi square validity?

2001-12-19 Thread Warren
Ben, The other posters give some good advice, but you could also set simultaneous confidence intervals for all 7 categories. If you are trying to establish "equivalence" then you could define some range that would be appropriate (say, within 3%). The CI's are easy enough to compute and I think a

Re: Basics

2001-12-19 Thread Glen
Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:22:26 +1100, "colsul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Read the request closely as answering newsgroup queries without > > understanding what is said can make you look, no, confirm you are stu

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2001-12-19 Thread Tom Whiting
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Re: GEE & Repeated Measures

2001-12-19 Thread Warren
Scott, You should be able to find tons of examples of GEE's, but maybe not for the simple pretest-posttest design. I wrote a paper a few years back (when I was convinced GEE's would save the world) and in the paper I investigated using GEE's for a simple pretest-posttest design. I remember one r

claculate L2 for Venus

2001-12-19 Thread Brad Guth
My URL has much to do with the discovery of "GUTH Venus" http://geocities.com/bradguth One of my questions has to deal with a manned mission, which may need to utilize the orbit station L2, as an orbit situated so as to sustain life onboard the spacecraft for several months to perhaps years. If

How ro perform "Runs Test"??

2001-12-19 Thread Chia C Chong
I am using nonlinear regression method to find the best parameters for my data. I came across a term called "runs test" from the Internet. It mentioned that this is to determines whether my data is differ significantly from the equation model I select for the nonlinear regression. Can someone plea

What is the formulae for generalised Gaussian CDF???

2001-12-19 Thread Chia C Chong
Can somebody tell mw what is the formulae for the CDF of generalised Gaussian distribution or where can I refer to??? Thanks. CCC = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESS

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Paul's post reminded me of something I read in Keppel's Design and : Analysis. Here's an excerpt from my notes on ANCOVA: : the analysis of covariance is more precise with correlations greater than : .6. Since we rarely obtain correlations of this la

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Paul R. Swank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Some years ago I did a simulation on the pretest-posttest control group : design lokking at three methods of analysis, ANCOVA, repeated measures : ANOVA, and treatment by block factorial ANOVA (blocking on the pretest using : a median split). I found tha

ICOTS 6

2001-12-19 Thread E. Jacquelin Dietz
Dear EdStat readers, Detailed information about The Sixth International Conference on Teaching Statistics is available on the ICOTS 6 web site at http://www.beeri.org.il/icots6/ The conference, which will be held from July 7-12, 2002, in Durban, South Africa, will have the theme "Developing a Sta

Re: Maximum Likelihood Question

2001-12-19 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jimc10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To all who have helped me on the previous thread thank you very much. I am >reposting this beause the question has become more focused. >I am studying a stochastic Markov process and using a maximum likelihood >technique to fit ob

Re: Analysis of covariance

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Morelli Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : HI all, : I have to analyse some clinical data. In particular the analysis is a : comparison between two groups of the mean change baseline to endpoint of a : score. i hope that your study is randomized; if not it's not worth worrying about. If so his

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
In sci.stat.consult Doug Federman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Unfortunately, the preceptors rarely agree on the grades. One preceptor : is biased towards the middle of the 1-9 likert scale and another may be : biased towards the upper end. Rarely, does a given preceptor use the 1-9 : range c

Re: Final Exam story

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Donald Burrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : "The story is about six students who ... The instructor ... tells them : "The one question was, "Which tire?" I remember that the likelihood of : all four pickng the same tire was quite small, but I forgot how to : calculate it explicitly." : Ass

Re: Degrees of freedom??

2001-12-19 Thread Elliot Cramer
Peter L?vgreen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : important, when comparing the observed distribution to the expected : distribution. the expected values are obtained from the marginals and there are a+b-1 of them and ab independent table entries. There are (a-1)(b-1) numbers free to vary (the differe

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2001-12-19 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 02:11:01 GMT, Doug Federman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a dilemma which I haven't found a good solution for. I work with > students who rotate with different preceptors on a monthly basis. A > student will have at least 12 evaluations over a year's time. A > prec

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2001-12-19 Thread Neil W. Henry
A naive solution seems reasonable if I am willing to assume that students are randomly assigned to the preceptors for evaluation. If so, I'd expect the average rating given by each judge to be the same. So, force the judges' means to be be equal to the overall mean by dividing each individual sco

Rave psyPHER sábado - 22/12 (1A9)

2001-12-19 Thread info
Aí galerinha, Se você tinha algum programa marcado para o sábado (22/12), pode riscar da agenda e colocar um outro muito, muito, muito melhor... Encerrando em grande estilo o calendário de festas em São Paulo, antes das viagens de final de ano, rola a rave psyPHER: psyCheDelic.tranCe::pre.Chris