Re: FW: Question: References for run charts.

2000-05-15 Thread FIsackson
I cannot recall the use of Runs Charts in quite the fashion that Mr. Scharin describes, i.e. as a substitute for a Control Chart when there are insufficient observations. That probably valueless observation aside, one might profitably look at Acheson Duncan's Quality Control and Industrial Sta

Re: FW: Multiple Comparisons of Variances

2000-05-15 Thread FIsackson
L. Nelson desribes an Analysis of Means (ANOM) analog for this problem in the Journal of Quality Technology, April, 2000, pp 188-190. Kwenda mzuri, Frank Frank Isackson re:SOLUTIONS 1724 S. Encino Avenue Monrovia, CA 91016 USA 626 574 7518 (voice) 626 574 7556 (fax/data) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: I need help with statistical test

2000-05-15 Thread Yura Koblents-Mishke
Rich Ulrich wrote: > [snip] > > The two guys who won a Nobel in economics (for figuring out the price > of Discounting, I think) needed a billion-dollar bailout of their > company. Apparently the way to stay rich is to have the government > take up the slack. > > (There's one traditional d

Re: to frame or not frame

2000-05-15 Thread Gary McClelland
Dennis asks about using frames for websites: > > this has been first of all an attempt on my part to learn a bit about > frames ... but, perhaps more importantly ... to try to decide which way > seems to make more sense > > any general comments or feedback about this would be helpful to me ..

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RE: homogeneity of variances

2000-05-15 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Eric Scharin wrote: > I was confused by many of the responses to Mike's post... maybe because > I'm not a statistician. But I'm guessing Mike isn't a statistician > either, so maybe he is as confused as I. > > My (limited) understanding is that the homogeneity of variance

to frame or not frame

2000-05-15 Thread dennis roberts
for a long time, i have had a main web site at: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm but, in the past week or so, i have 'framed' it at: http://roberts.edpsu.edu/users/droberts/drframe.htm this has been first of all an attempt on my part to learn a bit about frames ... but, p

Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 15 May 2000 08:58:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: < ... "Here's a draft of what I have written." (review of article for Steve's Web site). On-line reference given for article. > > > Thornley, Ben, and Adams, Clive "Content and quality of 2000 controlled > trials in s

FW: Multiple Comparisons of Variances

2000-05-15 Thread Eric Scharin
I am resending the below question, since I think the first didn't make it through & I never received a response. -Original Message- From: Eric Scharin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 3:05 PM To: Edstat-L Subject: Multiple Comparisons of Variances All - I am loo

FW: Question: References for run charts.

2000-05-15 Thread Eric Scharin
I am resending the below question, since I think the first didn't make it through & I never received a response. -Original Message- From: Eric Scharin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:18 AM To: Edstat Subject: Question: References for run charts. All - I'm look

statistics in the field of genetics

2000-05-15 Thread Patrick Lee
Hello; I am doing a general search for the types of statistical methodologies specific to the field of genetics. Does anyone know of any good texts,journals, or web pages that would give me this information? Thank you. ===

RE: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread dennis roberts
At 10:30 AM 5/15/00 -0500, Simon, Steve, PhD wrote: >There have been a lot of interesting comments in this thread. Let me just >add my two cents. > >Anyway, what I tell them is that nine times out of ten, the mistake was not >in how the data was analyzed, but in how it was collected. After all, if

Re: which calculator for statistics?

2000-05-15 Thread Warren
Stefanie, Donald Macnaughton gives some good advice. I have a Sharp calculator that cost about $15 US. It's usually all I ever need. In the past, I've bought some expensive calculators and have been terribly dissapointed. IMHO, they aren't useful beyond an elementary statistics class. Access

RE: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
There have been a lot of interesting comments in this thread. Let me just add my two cents. A lot of the doctors and nurses that I work with get hung up over the actual statistical analysis in medical journal articles, and they get intimidated by the statistical jargon. Why anyone who uses words

RE: homogeneity of variances

2000-05-15 Thread Eric Scharin
I was confused by many of the responses to Mike's post... maybe because I'm not a statistician. But I'm guessing Mike isn't a statistician either, so maybe he is as confused as I. My (limited) understanding is that the homogeneity of variances requirement for a regression is in the response vari

Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Granaas
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Rich Ulrich wrote: > < snip > > > Or, there are bad news reports, that don't really say what the study > said. > So: Here is another aspect of error -- what is reported in a journal, > as opposed to what is claimed in a newspaper. > > The misinterpretation of results

Re: Benford's law and simulation

2000-05-15 Thread P.G.Hamer
DIAMOND Mark R wrote: > Background: Theodore Hill showed, in a paper published in Statistical > Science 1995, that if sequences of random variables $\{X\sb n\}$ are > selected at random in a scale (base) unbiased way, then the mantissa > distributions of the combined sample will converge to Benfo

Re: homogeneity of variances

2000-05-15 Thread Juha Puranen
Thom Baguley wrote: > > Gary McClelland wrote: > > Lots of excellent advice. I would add that plots also have the advantage of > suggesting a possible solution to any serious violation. For example variance > about the regression line increasing with X tends would lead me first to look > at tran

Re: homogeneity of variances

2000-05-15 Thread Thom Baguley
Gary McClelland wrote: Lots of excellent advice. I would add that plots also have the advantage of suggesting a possible solution to any serious violation. For example variance about the regression line increasing with X tends would lead me first to look at transformations such as the log or squa