On 27 Feb 2002 15:01:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote:
At 01:39 PM 2/27/02 -0600, Jay Warner wrote:
Not stressful 1__ 2__ 3__ 4__ 5__ 6__ 7__ Very stressful
just out of curiosity ... how many consider the above to be an example of a
bipolar scale?
i don't
now, if we
The University of Michigan Documents Center has a Web site with links
to statistical resources that might prove invaluable to those
interested in a wide variety of data sources. Check it out.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:00:02 -0500, R. C. Lehman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone tell me were to get Statistic's on second hand smoke.This
is very important that I find the Statistic's on second hand smoke.
R. C. Lehman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanx for any help you can give.
Start
I recently read about German-based Convar helping cos. in NYC uncover
the facts surrounding the unusual surge (both in volume and amounts)
in financial transactions during immediately preceding the WTC
disaster. Convar is using a laser scanning technology to recover data
from computer hard
On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 19:19:38 -0500, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
With the curve, and low, low averages, you do notice
that a single *good* performance can outweigh several
poor ones. So that is good.
It is good, but conversely having several high scores even with low,
low averages
On 29 Nov 2001 07:03:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J.
MacG. Dawson) wrote:
There is probably a reverse trend in the extreme tail; people probably
overestimate the probability of getting (say) red fifty times in a row
at Roulette simply because we don't have a good feel for really large
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:14:36 -0500, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- whereas, by contrast, we scientists can right it out with
scientific notation with its powers of ten, and have something
concrete, not abstract, because it is additive in the exponents
or am I just making another
Rensis Likert was instrumental in founding the Institute for Social
Research at the University of Michigan in the mid 1940s. He was truly
a pioneer statistician and psychologist. He retired from Michigan in
1970 and passed away in 1981. Variants of his 1 to 5 or 1 to 7 scale
are still found on
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:45:35 GMT, Jerry Dallal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some graduate programs in the (social) sciences require their
students to take a minor in statistics or biostatistics. One
purpose of such a minor is to give students the ability to analyze
some of their own data, but at
In an exhaustive investigation, the N.Y. Times has studied the
acceptance pattern of absentee ballots which arrived in Florida
following the November election.
In an analysis of the 2,490 ballots from Americans living abroad that
were counted as legal votes after The Times found 680
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:15:25 GMT, Jan Sjogren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there!
I wonder what these things means:
SST
SSM
SSE
SSR
MSR
MSE
Thanks,
Janne
Are these statistical acronyms you want defined? SSt, for example,
could be total sum of squares and SSe could be sum of squares error.
On 9 Jul 2001 07:20:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert J.
MacG. Dawson) wrote:
J. Williams wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:15:25 GMT, Jan Sjogren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there!
I wonder what these things means:
SST
SSM
SSE
SSR
MSR
MSE
Thanks,
Janne
:49:47 GMT, mackeral@remove~this~first~yahoo.com
(J. Williams) wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:37:48 -0400, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What rights are denied to smokers?
JW
Many smokers, including my late mother, feel being unable to smoke on
a commerical aircraft, sit anywhere
On 17 Jun 2001 14:47:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EugeneGall)
wrote:
On Slate, there is quite a good discussion of the meaning and probabilistic
basis of the statement that 1 in 3 teen smokers will die of cancer. It is
written by a math prof and it is one of the most effective lay discussions
On 26 May 2001 03:43:06 GMT, Elliot Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
J. Williams mackeral@remove~this~first~yahoo.com wrote:
: On 25 May 2001 19:39:50 GMT, Elliot Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: wrote:
: do you suppose a person receiving a placebo can actually
: change his/her diastolic reading
On 25 May 2001 19:39:50 GMT, Elliot Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I am not impressed. I don't think much of people who compare placebo with
no treatment; seems stupid to me. I would expect a placebo in any case
in which the evaluation is a human judgement or one's expectation could
On 30 Apr 2001 12:18:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert R
Johnson) wrote:
Several have written to this thread and I believe there has been some
misleading information passed along and intermixed with correct
information.
Possibly, you missed it, but I posted the correct answer last Saturday
On 29 Apr 2001 04:09:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Bohlman) wrote:
I wanted that with *fries* and *ketchup*! *Not* ketchup and fries!
We hear you, but fries were not included in the original
problem...only the 5 condiments. But you're right, fries would be
good with that! Order me one.
. Possibly, my attempt at humor
in the response eluded you. How any one likes their Big Mac is
beyond the scope of this newsgroup :-))
- Original Message -
From: J. Williams mackeral@remove~this~first~yahoo.com
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: Help me
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:35:05 GMT, W. D. Allen Sr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Five different condiments, plus no condiments, means 6*5*4*3*2*1 = 720
distinct combinations.
WDA
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't you thinking of the number of
permutations, i.e., all the condiments plus the
The Census Bureau urged Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Thursday not
to use adjusted results from the 2000 population count. Evans must
now weigh the recommendation from the Census Bureau, and will make the
decision next week. If the data were adjusted statistically it could
be used to
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:47:49 -0500, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Concerning the MCAS. There was a discussion last month
in another Usenet group, alt.usage.english, concerning one of
its math questions which was written too loosely.
Here is the start of that thread. The thread has
Francis Galton explained it in 1885. Possibly, the Mass. Dept. of
Education missed it! Or, could it be that the same gang who brought
us the exit poll data during the November election were helping them
out? :-)
I am wondering why they did not have a set of objective standards for
ALL
On 5 Jan 2001 17:32:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote:
this is the perennial issue in national elections about ... if it looks
like the election is sewn up from the east and south ... then what is to
motivate those in the napa valley to leave their vinyards and head for the
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:56:03 -0500, Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What is your corollary issue? I don't see that you name one ... I
It is simple. If your state was divided into two time zones and it
was announced the election for all intents and purposes was "over,"
would you stand
The following article appeared on CNN.com outlining the VNS exit
polling errors. However, VNS believes the networks jumped the gun in
predicting Florida at first for Gore, then over to Bush. The future
of exit polling in close heats may be questioned more closely prior to
network "predictions."
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:31:53 GMT, "Sarah C." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a PhD in psychology and my school only offered basic coursework
in statistics. I'd like to take an advanced applied stats class, and
perhaps a psychometrics class -- preferably online. It's too
specialized a
Next week the first results from Census 2000 will be released. These
will be the raw state by state totals. Pending approval the Census
Bureau is planning to release another set of figures developed
through sampling sometime in March. These data may paint a different
picture of urban
CNN's Web site ran an article quoting statisticians at Wisconsin and
Johns Hopkins. They gave different estimates than the sort of
straight line projections given by the Gore handlers. Check it out.
The article was printed on 12/2/00.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:53:58 GMT, "Robert Chung" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In today's edition of the NY Times was this article on the accuracy of
machine vs. hand counts as described by the makers of vote-counting
machines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/17/politics/17MACH.html
In summary,
In today's local paper here on the Space Coast of Florida, an
elementary school teacher divided her 4th grade language arts class of
varied abilities into 3 distinct groups of 11 students. Each group
was asked to vote using the butterfly ballot now being questioned.
One group was asked to vote
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 22:17:31 GMT, Ronald Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In today's local paper here on the Space Coast of Florida, an
elementary school teacher divided her 4th grade language arts class of
varied abilities into 3 distinct groups of 11
Are you saying that only Gore supporters could not figure out the
ballot? Plus, only Gore voters were too timid to ask for assistance
or for a new ballot? :-)) Could it be that they are complaining ex
post facto when confronted with an unpopular result? :-) Apparently,
upon leaving the
It appeared at first it was Gore winning Florida. No, wait. It's
Bush. He's the next President. No, now it's too close to call. All
of it based on the exit poll consortium used by the networks. This
appears to be the reason all the networks got it wrong. To save
money, the networks pool
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:12:44 -0400, Bob Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are pollsters having special difficulties this
time around due to caller ID? I'd think that the
nonresponse would be hard to quantify.
Is there a web site that spells out the
methodologies of the various polling groups?
If the agency plans the research, analyzes the data, and edits the results,
what does the student do? Why have a committee waste university time if an
agency is going to handle the tough chores? Back in the ice age when I was a
graduate student in Ann Arbor, the Ph.D. dissertation was
Before an answer to your query can be completed, more information is required.
First, is the 25 figure really the sample or is it the population of potential
customers? If it is the latter, simply question all 25 with a mix of Likert
Scale and "Yes/No" responses. With a high tech product,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts)
wrote:
happy new year to everyone ... hope your y2k +1 year is great!
now, the y2k scare provides us with an excellent example of confounds (more
or less) .. consider the following:
Time One: lots of hype about "potential"
Many businesses and institutions hiring key personnel ask applicants to
instruct his/her university to send an official transcipt with seal directly
to the employer. This is not so much to ponder over a "B" or an "A" in
various courses, but to determine the person did indeed graduate with a
I assume she intends to move all marks up or down in tandem. I assume too
that the marks themselves are quantitative along some sort of continuum.
Regardless, the easiest thing would be to rank order them and make a decision
where the cutoff lines for A's, B's, etc.make sense. I don't see
In my case, the same way you will...bumbling and
stumbling. Good Luck.
j. williams
In article 838sqb$26ho$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "J.L."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all --
I am a PhD student in biostats. who will be starting the dissertation
process in about a year and a half. Co
or whatever methodology
you envision. Lastly, you can go to the statistics department at your school
and get the names of consultants available for looking over your materials.
Good Luck
j. williams
In article 82j1a2$6s3$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a 3rd year student carrying out
If this is for a statistics course assignment, you should read a little bit
about convenience or accidental sampling in a research design text at your
school's library. Nonprobability sampling provides no way to forecast that
each element in your target pop. will be adequately estimated or
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