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
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hayden) writes: > ... Maybe we should just agree that if the margin is less than > 0.5% on election night then we honestly say it's too close to call That doesn't help. There could still be disputes about whether the margin was less than 0.

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

2000-11-12 Thread Warren Sarle
I would prefer to blame the NY Times article on the ignorance of the reporter rather than on the abdication of professional responsibility by the statisticians involved, but clearly some big-name statisticians need to respond to this article. To suggest that there is no way to get a more accurat

Re: SAT: interval or ordinal scale?

2000-08-26 Thread Warren Sarle
In article <8o6564$7d3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Without raising the specter of what IQ and SAT tests really measure, does > anyone have any comments that might be helpful in telling students what to > think about this? The concepts of interval and ordin

Re: testing if classifier accuracy differs significantly

2000-08-20 Thread Warren Sarle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Everingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Dear all, > >Help appreciated on this problem: > >I have two classifier systems which take as input an image and produce >as output a label for each pixel in the image, for example the input >might be of an outdoor scen

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 >