Re: how to read excel data into sas

2002-02-01 Thread Warren
but in the old version you could ask SAS how it sees the DDE stuff. If Jay's advice doesn't work, open the Excel spreadsheet and highlight the cells you want to bring into SAS dataset. Copy. In SAS, on one of the menus

Re: chi square validity?

2001-12-19 Thread Warren
ute and I think a Bonferroni approach would work okay here. There are various methods of computing the intervals, but I would suggest a Wilson-type interval. (For a discussion, see the 2000 issue of the Journal of Statistical Software that discusses setting CI's for the multinomial) Warren M

Re: GEE & Repeated Measures

2001-12-19 Thread Warren
I remember one reviewers comment was something like "Why on earth would anyone want to use GEE's for such a simple design". Hmm. Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SR Millis) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > In November's issue of the American Statistician, Yan

Re: for students (biology et al.) that hate numbers

2001-10-19 Thread Warren
the students, an OB-GYN fellow, went to California last week and brought back a "sample" of all blue M's from her meeting. It was great. Warren May = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the p

Re: for students (biology et al.) that hate numbers

2001-10-17 Thread Warren
I don't feel M&M's are any more trivial to introduce the concepts than the usual "chips in an urn" or "balls from a jar". And I don't agree that using M&Ms is trivial or juvenile. My class has basic science grad students, M.D.s, Health professionals of all types and they do seem to get something

Re: Standardized Confidence Intervals

2001-10-15 Thread Warren
the mean if it is "meaningless"? Warren May = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

What is a confidence interval?

2001-09-26 Thread Warren
I based on these samples. How would you explain? Thanks, Warren = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =

Re: How estimate p to Bernoulli Trial?

2001-09-06 Thread Warren
Rafael, Is this homeworks? You're on the right track...you either need a separate "guess" for the probability of success or you need an estimate from a sample. Is there an even chance of turning right or left? Are you a classicist, a frequentist or a subjectivist? :) Warren [

Re: Teaching Intro Biostat using Daniel's book

2001-08-30 Thread Warren
I'm using Daniel's book too. I've used it for the last couple of years, switching from Glantz Primer. The 7th edition still has quite a few errors, but I like it for some of the exercises. Would love to be on your mailing list. Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hamer) wrote i

British Medical Journal on significance tests

2001-01-26 Thread Warren Sarle
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7280/0 -- Warren S. Sarle SAS Institute Inc. The opinions expressed here [EMAIL PROTECTED]SAS Campus Drive are mine and not necessarily (919) 677-8000Cary, NC 27513, USA those of SAS Institute

Re: election

2000-11-16 Thread Warren Sarle
e margin was less than 0.5%. And since the margin could be either +0.5% or -0.5%, disputes would happen roughly twice as often. -- Warren S. Sarle SAS Institute Inc. The opinions expressed here [EMAIL PROTECTED]SAS Campus Drive are mine and not necessarily (919) 677-8000Cary

Re: NY Times on "statisticians' view" of election

2000-11-12 Thread Warren Sarle
ly entered. But many new problems are also introduced. The > opportunities for accidents and fraud are transformed into different > categories -- such as tampering with software development and operation. > And the desire for voter privac

Re: SAT: interval or ordinal scale?

2000-08-26 Thread Warren Sarle
? The concepts of interval and ordinal scales are defined in terms of the relationship between the scale and what it measures. You can't know the scale type without understanding what it really measures. See ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/measurement.html -- Warren S. Sarle SAS Institut

Re: testing if classifier accuracy differs significantly

2000-08-20 Thread Warren Sarle
rent images are not correlated unless you are doing something weird. The paired t-test you propose is not invalidated by spatial correlation. If you did McNemar's test on pixels, it would not be valid due to spatial correlation. Follow-ups set to sci.stat.consult -- Warren S. Sarle

Re: Recommendation for Statistics Software?

2000-06-30 Thread Warren
he major players have demos that you might check. SPSS sent me a really nice SYSTAT CD with a bunch of other Jandelly looking software like SigmaStat, etc. SPSS also has a grad pack for a great price if you are a student. NCSS has a free download that includes P

Re: Comments about my syllabus

2000-06-20 Thread Warren
Textbooks still have the variance formulae in two forms...one for computation. Why? Warren May (I'm still learning to teach, too) Paul R Swank wrote: > I found your syllabus to be very ambitious for undergraduates. Is this > their first stat course? > > At 07:34 AM 6/18/00 -0400, S

Re: Statistical Libraries

2000-05-17 Thread Warren
if I remember correctly. I think it might be like the old IMSL library...you can't run the code without having ENTISOFT. Bummer. www.entisoft.com Luck, Warren Clay Fink wrote: > I am reverse engineering a piece of software that was implemented in > SAS. It uses the BETAINV function to c

Re: which calculator for statistics?

2000-05-15 Thread Warren
class. Access to a computer with some REAL software is the way to go. The $300 US you pay for a calculator will go a long way on software (SPSS had a grad pack that was an awesome deal...hope they still have it). Warren May Donald Macnaughton wrote: > Stefanie Dzierzon writes (on 00/5/13) &

Re: test

2000-05-12 Thread Warren
therwise, don't test. ;) Warren May === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the post

Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

2000-05-06 Thread Warren Sarle
In article <007201bfb639$d40ee400$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Heiser) wrote: > > - Original Message ----- > From: Warren Sarle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 12:23 PM > Subject: Re: no cor

Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

2000-05-04 Thread Warren Sarle
In article <002501bfb563$e8e6e8e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Heiser) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Herman Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:20 AM > Subject: Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR >

Re: Which Way Should We Go

2000-04-24 Thread Warren
So, we must be forced to decide between two competing hypotheses? H0: Use classical hypothesis testing H1: Use Bayesian analysis Is there enough evidence to reject the null? Or, what is the probability that the null is true if we reject it? Milo Schield wrote: > Dennis Roberts has issued a fu

Re: Sample calculations? :)

2000-03-28 Thread Warren
e enough is a matter for subject specialists. Also, if I remember correctly you want to use 2 alpha instead of alpha for constructing the CI. Warren. Rich Ulrich wrote: > (posted to sci.stat.consult,sci.stat.edu, where version of the same > post by Wang appeared.) > > On Tue, 28 Mar

Re: Calculator policy

2000-03-23 Thread Warren
to preach. Want to see what other say. Warren dennis roberts wrote: > for i don't know how many years now ... i have let my stat class students > bring in a 3 by 5 notecard packed with whatever they want ... most put > formulas ... thus, this is a legal cheat sheet. but, i have

Re: Sample size: way tooo big?

2000-03-23 Thread Warren
significantly different from zero is it? Your larger sample will allow you to estimate the mean with more precision. (I'm not sure that I agree that larger samples are more problematic from the terms of missing data than smaller samples...that's a problem with study design, not sample size

Re: Calculator policy

2000-03-23 Thread Warren
re forced to analyze something without the aid of a bookshelf full of reference materials? I do feel plugging numbers into the formulaes is beneficial, but this might be better handled with out of class assignments. Depends again on what you want to test...computation or concept. Warren "T.S

Re: over and above

2000-03-23 Thread Warren
y use some form of multimedia...slides, overheads, etc. Afterwards, we open the floor for discussion focusing on the statistical methods and results. Lots of great opportunities (and sometimes exam questions) come from these discussions. Anxious to hear how others feel about projects. Warren de

Re: Power for Pilot Studies

2000-03-21 Thread Warren
ate of the clinically important difference(s). If so, why do you need a pilot study? If not, then you don't have enough information to do a power study to begin with...well, you could use Cohen's rather vague "small", "medium" and "large" criteria. Warren May

Re: Why do we use and teach z?

2000-03-21 Thread Warren
ppreciate helping them make this connection. Just presenting computational formulae for the "if you see one of these, then do this test" isn't, IMHO, something students remember for very long. Anxious to see more of how people feel, Warren May > > William J. Larson wrote: &

New books list on KCS web site

2000-02-03 Thread Warren Kovach
nformation about our statistical software and download evaluation versions (http://www.kovcomp.com/). -- Dr. Warren L. Kovach Kovach Computing Services 85 Nant-y-Felin, Pentraeth, Anglesey Wales LL75 8UY U.K. Tel.: +44-1248-45

Re: help: independence of data

2000-01-13 Thread Warren
Thom Baguley wrote: > christophe tourenq wrote: > > > > I am a biologist (definitely not a statistician) in France with very > > limited access to statistical resources and I wonder if someone can give > > me some advice. I have been conducting weekly bird counts in wetland > > areas for a peri

Re: transcript

2000-01-07 Thread Warren
Jerry Dallal wrote: > dennis roberts wrote: > > > well, whether it is called a transcript or something else ... we > > DO need some record of what the student did (i don't think having the > > student say ... "I went to Purdue ... " would be sufficient)... and, > > what courses a student t

Re: grading on the curve

1999-12-30 Thread Warren
a "quiz" at the beginning of class by asking students to turn in a specific homework problem. I usually pick one that is fairly far along in the homework set...students know this, but they usually must do the "easy" ones in order to work up to the harder ones. Sure, some do cheat but they usually fail the inclass tests anyway. Warren.