rate of source calculation

2002-01-10 Thread qazmlp
There is a source which produces M code words x1, x2xm. Each code word is a sequence of N channel inputs. How do you find the rate of this source? Is it (ln M)/N or something else? How? = Instructions for joining and leaving th

Why does the height of empirical distribution density does not match theoretical PDF??

2002-01-10 Thread Chia C Chong
I tried to fit the empirical distribution of a set of data to some theoretical distributions (Say is gamma PDF). When I plotted the probability density of the empirical data and the estimated gamma PDF, it seems that the front tail (the side with ramping up!!) and the back tail (side with ramping

Re: Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread Elliot Cramer
EugeneGall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : The Gallup organization posted a video to explain why the the increase in : black's job approval for Bush is 'proportionate' to the increase among whites. It makes no sense to talk of "proportionate" increases in percentages Suppose you start at zero or 9

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Re: Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread EugeneGall
His definition of proportionate would mean that if a group's approval of Bush went from 1% to 31%, that too would be proportionate. The relative odds would be one way of expressing the changes in proportions, but the absolute difference (60% to 90% is roughly propotionate to an increase from 33%

Re: Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread Dennis Roberts
there are two sets of data ... one for georgeDUBU ... and the elder george bush here is what i glean from the charts for george w ... the EVENT was sept 11 ... for the elder george bush ... the EVENT was the gulf war ... and both were before and after ratings 1. whites approval rating for BOTH

Proportionate vs. disproportionate

2002-01-10 Thread EugeneGall
The Gallup organization posted a video to explain why the the increase in black's job approval for Bush is 'proportionate' to the increase among whites. Both increased by about 30% (60 to 90 for whites, mid thirties to roughly 70% for blacks), so the increase is proportionate, not disproportionat

Re: what is the appropriate method?

2002-01-10 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:00:06 +0100, "Jos Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Rich Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:33:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (Jukka Sinisalo) wrote: > > > > > > > > We have two pots w

Re: Standardizing evaluation scores

2002-01-10 Thread Herman Rubin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dennis Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sorry for late reply >ranking is the LEAST useful thing you can do ... so, i would never START >with simple ranks >any sort of an absolute kind of scale ... imperfect as it is ... would >generally be better ... You can

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Re: what is the appropriate method?

2002-01-10 Thread Jos Jansen
"Rich Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:33:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Jukka Sinisalo) wrote: > > > > > We have two pots with 25 plants each. After an identical treatment we > > wait for a week, and then calculate h