Re: Stats for the illiterate - esp. health workers.

1999-12-29 Thread Thomas A Torda
The responses to my note have all been helpful. Both in suggesting an attitude to such a course and in pointing me to resources. When I called myself near-illiterate, I was perhaps exaggerating, I am an experienced user with what I consider a reasonably sophisticated approach to the use of stats i

faculty opening

1999-12-29 Thread Mike Wogan
This ad for a faculty position appeared in the Monitor and Observer. If you know of anybody who might be qualified/ interested, won't you please share this information with them. Mike THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY--AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, CAMDEN CAMPUS: invites applications for an Assistant P

Re: ANOVA and normality

1999-12-29 Thread Mike Wogan
Greg, For your EEG problem, there are "30 measures" taken across a five minute interval, but you don't say how many leads per subject. Are you using a standard 19-lead EEG configuration? How many active leads per subject? You say you can't equate the order in which the measures are taken

Re: grading on the curve

1999-12-29 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 23 Dec 1999 20:01:02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RU> ... > >Actually, I see where I might want to be more arbitrary that just > >changing a cutoff. How do you reward someone who is really trying >

Listserv ?

1999-12-29 Thread karen holbrook
Hello all, Would someone please tell me how to contact the server for this list ? I am about to leave for an extended vacation and would like to reduce the flow of email during my absence. karen holbrook frostburg state university begin:vcard n:Holbrook, Ph.D.;Karen tel;fax:301 687 7418 tel;

Re: Question: Bivariate Regression

1999-12-29 Thread Paige Miller
Dan Ryan wrote: > I am interested in finding literature on about a bivariate regression where > the parameters of the bivariate distribution are estimated. I'm hoping you can be a little more explicit in your request, as I don't recognize the term "bivariate regression". If you want to estimate

Re: comparison of kappa coefficients

1999-12-29 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:24:03 -0500, Bruce Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ snip, question ] > It sounds like you have to related kappas here. Here are two papers you > could consult, if that is the case: > > McKenzie DP et al. (1996). Comparing correlated kappas by resampling: Is > one lev

Re: Question: Bivariate Regression

1999-12-29 Thread Jan de Leeuw
At 10:22 AM -0500 12/29/99, Dan Ryan wrote: >I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. > >I am interested in finding literature on about a bivariate regression where >the parameters of the bivariate distribution are estimated. > >If anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly apprec

Re: Shared varience

1999-12-29 Thread Rich Ulrich
Posted to sci.stat.edu, sci.stat.consult -- where the original was separately posted. On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:33:51 +, Rahat Bokhari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > Could you please guide me about a table (Matrix) having title > "discriminant validity" with footnote "Diagonal repr

Re: Prediction Model Question

1999-12-29 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Well put Donald. The only additional points I wish to make are that in my career I've never seen balanced factorial data with normal errors. Only in the case where the study was done in a balanced way (i.e., experimental study, no missing data, etc.) AND where the model is a regression model wit

Question: Bivariate Regression

1999-12-29 Thread Dan Ryan
I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am interested in finding literature on about a bivariate regression where the parameters of the bivariate distribution are estimated. If anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated. Best Wishes for the New Year... Dan Dani

Re: adjusting marks

1999-12-29 Thread Robert Dawson
> antioch (at one time and perhaps still) has had an open-file policy, such that > any student who didn't like the grade they got in a course could simply remove > from their file the record of that course (grade & credit). this does not seem > to have affected the school's reputation adversely,

Re: grading on the curve

1999-12-29 Thread Robert Dawson
From: pbern10 > When I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech in the late 1970s, an > instructor for an upper level engineering class in which I was enroled > raised cut offs if necessary to attain a normal distribution. We were > *very* annoyed, but at GT in those days, no student would dare compl

Re: Shared varience

1999-12-29 Thread Ddeliberto
On the same note, I am curious to know the meaning of "discriminant validity" and how that is determeined/measured. Thanks! Happy New Year to all! Deanna === Deanna M. De'Liberto, President/Director of Assessment D Squared Assessments, Inc. (Spec