Re: best inference

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Jefferys
it comes to passing along to #students studying inferential statistics # #what i am mainly looking for would be answers like: # #the notion of # #being able to do __ I'd say the notion of inverse probability, but of course that's because of where I am coming from :-) Bill -- Bill

Re: Confidence intervals

2001-09-28 Thread Bill Jefferys
#Maybe the #qualitative people have the right idea. Don't use numbers at all. # #Paul R. Swank, Ph.D. #Professor #Developmental Pediatrics #UT Houston Health Science Center # #-Original Message- #From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Jefferys #Sent: Thursday

Re: Confidence intervals

2001-09-27 Thread Bill Jefferys
in http://bayes.wustl.edu/gregory/articles.pdf http://bayes.wustl.edu/gregory/articles.ps.gz Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' with 'clyde' | Homepage: quasar.as.utexas.edu I report spammers to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Confidence intervals

2001-09-27 Thread Bill Jefferys
can see just by looking at the data that it is impossible for the data to lie in the CI? Bill #Paul R. Swank, Ph.D. #Professor #Developmental Pediatrics #UT Houston Health Science Center # #-Original Message- #From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] #[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Jefferys

Re: OT: SCAM WARNING Re: urgent response needed

2001-08-27 Thread Bill Jefferys
of the sky on the #planet occupied by most of us); so perhaps solicitude for the gravely #clue-challenged might justify a warning after all. It could even be a sting. Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' with 'clyde' | Homepage

Re: British Medical Journal on significance tests

2001-01-27 Thread Bill Jefferys
At 5:13 PM -0600 1/26/01, Warren Sarle wrote: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7280/0 Good article. See also J.O. Berger and M. Delampady, "Testing Precise Hypotheses" (Statistical Sciences 2, 317-335, 1987) for an extensive discussion of this phenomenon. Bill -- Bil

Re: Comparison of statistical software

2001-01-22 Thread Bill Jefferys
ses memory requirements to increase rapidly as a large calculation proceeds. It may have been fixed in recent versions, but R does not have this bug. Go to http://www.R-project.org/ Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' w

Re: What's type III?

2000-11-15 Thread Bill Jefferys
nominates for error of the fourth kind "solving the right problem too late". Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' with 'clyde' | Homepage: quasar.as.utexas.edu I report spammers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger for PGP Ke

Re: Polls: Errors on Prime Time - NOT AN ERROR

2000-11-15 Thread Bill Jefferys
are alphabetically privileged.) No, the governor's party goes at the top of the ballot in Florida. It's not an alphabetical thing. Floriday state law favors candidates whose brothers happen to be the governor :-) Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX

Re: Palm Beach Stats

2000-11-11 Thread Bill Jefferys
argument does not convince. Best wishes, Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' with 'clyde' | Homepage: quasar.as.utexas.edu I report spammers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger for PGP Key: F7 11 FB 82 C6 21 D8 95 2E BD F7 6E 99 89 E1

RE: Stats on Palm Beach votes

2000-11-11 Thread Bill Jefferys
oblem to remedy, in fact. The 19,000 overvotes probably can't be rescued by any reasonable method. One hopes that Florida will abandon the punch card technology and go to a more reliable one like the mark-sense technology used in Northern Florida. This information courtesy of Salon.com, which p

Re: Palm Beach Stats

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Jefferys
wants to listen. Florida law would have required the election judge to give her a new ballot. http://www.npr.org/ bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' with 'clyde' | Homepage: quasar.as.utexas.edu I report spammers

Re: .05 level of significance

2000-10-22 Thread Bill Jefferys
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote: #On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Bill Jefferys wrote: # However, the combined experiment is 400 heads on 800 trials, # #This however is not the _intersection_ of the two specified events. Sure it is. It's the event I get by first

Re: consistent statistic

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Jefferys
-axis will follow a Cauchy distribution. Bill -- Bill Jefferys/Department of Astronomy/University of Texas/Austin, TX 78712 Email: replace 'warthog' with 'clyde' | Homepage: quasar.as.utexas.edu I report spammers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger for PGP Key: F7 11 FB 82 C6 21 D8 95 2E BD F7 6E 99 89 E1