I looked up one and copied it:
"For the first time, thanks to the increased power of computers, new
methods replace the skill of the statistical artisan with massive-computational
methods, obtaining equal or better results in far less time without requiring
any specialised knowledge."
In
I teach research methods for social science at a small liberal arts college.
The level of math in the class is low, I use Richard Black's "Doing
Quantitative Research in the Soc. Sci." and excerpts from Gujarati's "Basic
Econometrics."
(FYI, if you have not seen Black's text yet, take a look.
Cheryl makes a good point: the "right" package depends on what the user wants
to do. MINITAB might be a good choice -- or SPSS, or any of dozens of others.
Is the application area psychology? Biology? Economics? Meteorology?
Demography? Chemistry? Do we need regression? Cross-tabs?
Uplandcrow wrote:
I am looking for examples of articles that use a stat procedure incorrectly.
A literature search of important journals in the subject area in which your
students major might show that common problems have been addressed. For example,
the articles below address problems
What really is the question? What kind of error?
On 28 Apr, Selim added some information,
"What I meant with the term error, was the statistical error of a
measurement. I am interessted in the statistical relevance of the
measurement (confidence interval that the measured value is correct
Thanks, Ellen. Evocative quote, isn't it? It's that "without requiring
*any* (!) specialized knowledge" that will be the dangerous part, if read
too literally by the naive.
Interesting that you could get to Lim's URL at all. When _I _
tried it, several days ago, the system seemed
