Re: a fortiori

2000-08-07 Thread Socspace
In a message dated 8/6/2000 11:58:04 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, as another chance to display my ignorance, I couldn't find "a fortiori" in my dictionary. Try RHD, between "aforetime" and "afoul", not between "a" and "AA". It will surely be in OED as

Re: Regression books

2000-08-07 Thread Rob Kings
Christopher If Amazon list the books as out of print (or even if they don't) I recommend www.bibliofind.com This is a web site of second hand books. Draper and Smith was £60 from Amazon (?? $80 or $90) yet I found a very good copy on bibliofind for $32 + postage. The bookseller was in Maine, and

Re: summarizing p-values

2000-08-07 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:34:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello from Germany, as a part of my dissertation in medicine, I have to summarize some results of clinical trials. My question: By summarizing the results

Books: Multivariate Statistics?

2000-08-07 Thread Oliver
Hello everybody! Does anybody know (a) real good book(s) on Multivariate Data Analysis, which is really up to date (Structural Equatation Modeling, Neural Networks and so on) and tells me "how to do it the right way"? Most books I know show only a few aspects, have some mistakes (e.g. testig on

Re: a fortiori

2000-08-07 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - My American Heritage Talking Dictionary on CD not only looked up said latinism, but spoke it as well. Its corrected a number of pronunciations for me. Most recently schism.In some cases it displays a picture or map. I couldn't

likelihood

2000-08-07 Thread Gökhan BakIr
Hi ! Please dont flame me for this question if its too foolish, but is there a difference between a likelihood and a probability ? thanks gökhan -- Gökhan BakIr Insitute of Robotics and Mechatronics Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt 82234

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

2000-08-07 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Mark Glickman wrote: The Boston Univ Department of Mathematics and Statistics is seeking a part-time temporary lecturer to teach an introductory statistics class in the Fall. Responsibilities include lecturing three times per week (Mon, Wed and Fri 2:00-3:00pm), holding office hours,

Re: t-test normality assumption

2000-08-07 Thread Glen Barnett
Bob Hayden wrote: In addition to the approximation involved in using the CLT, most (possibly all) practical situations require that you estimate the population standard deviation with the sample standard deviation in calculating a standard error for use in constructing a confidence interval