Screen player

2000-05-23 Thread William Dudley
Off the topic A while back some one pointed me to a site that had a piece of software that played back a lesson in excel. The action on the screen mimiced the actions taken by the instructor, e.g. the cursor moved, formale were typed in and there was a voice over lay. I think the software was

Qualitative analysis

2000-05-23 Thread Grant
Dear Members, When performing a content analysis one breaks down the respondents statements into their smallest meaningful units. This results in there being more statements than respondents. When calculating the frequecy of these units - is it more corect to use the number of respondents or

Re: Screen player

2000-05-23 Thread dennis roberts
i was just sending the below to some other colleagues ... here are 4 places to find screen REcorders of action ... as video files http://www.techsmith.com/ http://tucows.tierranet.com/scapt95.html go down to matchware screencorder http://www.hyperionics.com/

Re: Qualitative analysis

2000-05-23 Thread Donald F. Burrill
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Grant Robertson wrote: When performing a content analysis one breaks down the respondents' statements into their smallest meaningful units. This results in there being more statements than respondents. When calculating the frequency of these units - is it more correct

Re: Qualitative analysis

2000-05-23 Thread dennis roberts
if i were defining as a measure of difficulty of a text passage ... the number of 3 syllable words per 100 words of text ... we expect that the measure conveys something about the TEXT ... and, larger ratios or proportions would be related and mean ... more difficult text ... because there

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Re: Screen player

2000-05-23 Thread Zina Taran
What is the advantage of such screen player over Power point presentations (where you can as well have animations, sliding arrows, recorded voice, etc.? Smaller files or something? thanks - Original Message - From: dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: William Dudley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

FW: Multiple Comparisons of Variances -Reply

2000-05-23 Thread Jerrold Zar
There are, for example, multiple-comparison tests for tests analogous to the Tukey's, Newman-Keuls, and Dunnett's tests for means. These are described in Zar, 1999, Biostatistical Analysis, 4th ed., pp. 231-233. Jerrold H. Zar, Professor Department of Biological Sciences Northern Illinois

Re: Screen player

2000-05-23 Thread dennis roberts
well, the pp file is not a real movie file is it? it basically does screen by screen but in sequence right? i am not sure ... but, these screen capture tools will make video files of ANYthing you see on your screen ... so, you can run word and demo typing and several editing features or,

video of mtb demo

2000-05-23 Thread dennis roberts
just as a sample ... and no big criticisms please! ... to show the possible potential of this process ... i made a 2.5 minute minitab demo ... opened the infamous pulse data set ... made a plot of height and weight ... etc. ... as a movie in avi format ... used the camtasia screencorder i

Re: Square root transformation

2000-05-23 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 22 May 2000 11:49:44 -0700, "G. Anthony Reina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use multiple linear regression to perform our analyses. Because we work with binned data (discharge frequency of a neuron) which follow a non-normal (Poisson) distribution, we typically use the square root

Re: Square root transformation

2000-05-23 Thread G. Anthony Reina
Rich Ulrich wrote: Plus, I've run the multiple regression without the transform and seen only about a 5% difference (not much). - damned if I know what that sentence means. You mean, like, accounting for 99% of the variance, instead of

Re: Square root transformation

2000-05-23 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Tue, 23 May 2000 13:49:38 -0700, "G. Anthony Reina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Ulrich wrote: me Plus, I've run the multiple regression without the transform and seen only about a 5% difference (not much). - damned if I know

Re: Square root transformation

2000-05-23 Thread G. Anthony Reina
Rich Ulrich wrote: - Since you don't see the grievous problem with that, I will try to point to it, and recommend that you need more advice than you are apt to receive over the Net. When you approach a limit, such as 100%, it is wise to consider what you have as the DIFFERENCE, or 100%-X.

Re: Data Mining blooper

2000-05-23 Thread Bill Watkins
I believe the author that Ellen quoted was referring to MCS and, if so, I agree with that author. IMHO, there will eventually be MCS software that will allow high school students to run circles around what today's PhDs do with closed form solutions. William Chambers wrote: Ellen, It amazes

Re: Screen player

2000-05-23 Thread Carl Lee
We created a web training workshop site for SPSS using movie clips. This can not be done by powerpoint. It capture the entire process of analysis with video and audio. We developed more than 30 movie clips and use this web site as training workshops for students and faculty who need either simple

Re: FW: Multiple Comparisons of Variances -Reply

2000-05-23 Thread Jerrold Zar
Oops! I have too many books on the shelf and I grabbed the wrong one. Pages 231-233 are correct for the 3rd edition; pages 228-230 are correct for the fourth edition. ---Jerry Zar Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/23 1:55 PM In response to a question about testing multiple samples for