Re: Finding the means of the Beta-Binomial

2000-05-05 Thread Graeme Byrne
Try http://www.itl.nist.gov/div894/894.01/proc/darpa99/pdf/tdt240.pdf for some clues "Aaron Katya" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message VRcQ4.851$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:VRcQ4.851$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Does anyone know of a reference that describes the steps in computing the mean for the

Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

2000-05-05 Thread Gus Gassmann
"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 correlation assumption among X's in MLR If the independent variables in a multiple linear regression are collinear,

Re: R sq vs r sq

2000-05-05 Thread Joe Ward
Hi Paul, William et al.-- This may be ANOTHER GOOD TIME TO COMMENT ON THE COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS OF STATISTICS (AND OTHER AREAS, TOO). I suggest that when we use the terms LINEAR and NONLINEAR that we tell the reader what the SENDER means by those terms. When I write: Y = b1*X1 + b2*X2 + ...

Re: Blackjack problem

2000-05-05 Thread Paul Bernhardt
Thom Baguley wrote on 5/4/00 3:41 AM: Donald F. Burrill wrote: (1) The house ALWAYS has the statistical advantage. Else it wouldn't include that game among its offerings. (Agreed, this is oversimple...) The only exception is successful card counting - however card counting is pretty hard

Re: R sq vs r sq

2000-05-05 Thread Joe Ward
Bill -- You are so right!! The term NONLINEAR is very confusing. As I indicated in the earlier message, most folks in the statistics world refer to a LINEAR MODEL as I indicated. Y = b1*X1 + b2*X2 + ... + bp*Xp + E and some folks will write UNFORTUNATELY -- Y = b0 + b1*X1 + b2 * X2 + ...

Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

2000-05-05 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Alan McLean wrote in part: With regard to correlation and collinearity - I have become used to 'explaining' collinearity to my classes in terms only of pairs of explanatory variables, forgetting that the collinearity could involve a set of three or more variables, and

Re: (none)

2000-05-05 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 4 May 2000 14:53:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Ogle) wrote: Can anyone provide me (a description or a reference will suffice) with a convincing argument or demonstration of WHY the first eigenvector-eigenvalue of the variance-covariance matrix represents the direction and magnitude of

Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-05 Thread V. Partridge
Look up papers by Stuart Hurlburt, who points up commonly-made errors in ecological research. Two of note are his paper on pseudoreplication (in Ecological Monographs, circa 1989, I think) and "The Spatial Distribution of the Montane Unicorn" (I don't recall the journal). V. Partridge