Re: Histogram for discrete probability distribution

2000-08-10 Thread Juha Puranen
"Jose Ramon G. Albert" wrote: Try having the points enumerated be the centers of your rectangles with each rectangle having an AREA of 1/6. Thus the first rectangle should have its corners at 1.25 and 1.75 (and have 1.5 as its midpoint). Now since the width of your rectange is 0.5, let the

Re: how to automate numerical analysis?

2000-08-10 Thread P.G.Hamer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 8lalui$655$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8lalui$655$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... SAS seems to be the only program that is flexible enough to run on unix and be automated. I would prefer a more simplistic approach as there is _a lot_ of overhead in starting to use

Re: how to automate numerical analysis?

2000-08-10 Thread Jose Ramon G. Albert
P.G.Hamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a free Splus look-similar (with poorer graphics?) called R. Look for it in statlib (possibly netlib). The actual site of the R statistical programming environment is www.cran.r-project.org Cheers. Jose Ramon G. Albert Chief, Research

Re: Variance Smoothers

2000-08-10 Thread P.G.Hamer
You might want to look at AVAS (Additivity and Variance Stabilising Regression). As part of a regression process it finds transformations which may go a long way towards solving your problem. Peter Eric Turkheimer schrieb: I am interested in whether there is a literature on variance

Re: Histogram for discrete probability distribution

2000-08-10 Thread Sheila King
On 9 Aug 2000 21:26:59 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote in sci.stat.edu in article [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :Sounds as though you are confusing a couple of things, as some of the :responders to your message have suggested (though none has said it :explicitly). The idea of "area under

Re: Histogram for discrete probability distribution

2000-08-10 Thread Anon.
Sheila King wrote: [cross-posted to sci.stat.edu,sci.stat.math,k12.ed.math] I'm teaching a GE stat course, my first time teaching stat, and am having some points of confusion. Here is one of my questions: Suppose I have a probability distribution as follows: Sample space: 1.5, 2.0,

Re: part-time temporary lectureship at Boston Univ

2000-08-10 Thread Avi Julie
Mark Glickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 8mpu19$s57$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8mpu19$s57$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... In sci.stat.edu Petr Kuzmic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : "Gordon D. Pusch" wrote: : When I was in Grad-school, if I allocated only the the Departmental : ``officially

Re: likelihood

2000-08-10 Thread Li0N_iN_0iL
David A. Heiser wrote: von Mises criticizes Fisher (1921) for his introduction of the term "likelihood" without defining it, since in common usage, 'likelihood' and 'probability" have the same meaning. Fisher may have addressed this issue in the preface to the thirteenth edition of his book,