Call for Papers

2000-10-25 Thread Simon Cheung
CALL FOR PAPERS Achieving Data Quality in a Statistical Agency : a Methodological Perspective October 17-19, 2001 XVIIIth International Symposium on Methodological Issues Statistics Canada With its eighteenth annual symposium, Statistics Canada continues its successful series of conferences on m

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Aniko wrote: ... > On a related topic: I have always wondered about the correct pronunciation > of Chebysev. > In Russia I heard it as Chebi_shov_, with the accent at the end. It all > reduces to the question of exact spelling in Russian: is the second vowel an > "e" or "umlaut e" (the one with

Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics in Splus

2000-10-25 Thread dph
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cyril Goutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > When I do ks.gof(1:10,rep(10,10)) on my system I get the same > erroneous output I described earlier. The version I use is > Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 > so hopefully t

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:08:12 -0400, I wrote, asking, > > Do you really have *three* that are the old way? (Names/Dates?) > I have not seen a survey of dictionaries, but the (few) ones that I > have used in recent years have been consistent, the times I have > noticed, in using a pre-syllable

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:26:28 -0600, "Tony T. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aniko wrote: > > > > > I don't understand your problem. The accent is on the _third_ syllable, > > that is on the first "o" in "Kalma_go_rov". It is usual to put the stress > > mark ' in front of the accented syl

RE: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Richard M. Barton
Hmmm, "John" sounds easy to pronounce :-) rick --- "Mardo, John G [AMSTA-AR-QAW-P]" wrote: Have any of you ever actually heard Dr. Kolmogorov or his parents pronounce his name? If not, then you cannot really be sure of the proper way to pronounce it. My name is fairly simple, yet I have hea

RE: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Mardo, John G [AMSTA-AR-QAW-P]
Have any of you ever actually heard Dr. Kolmogorov or his parents pronounce his name? If not, then you cannot really be sure of the proper way to pronounce it. My name is fairly simple, yet I have heard at least 13 variations on its pronunciation. Only one of them is correct. It is the way MY

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Aniko
>> >> I need help breaking "kalma" into three syllables?-) >> > >The first one is silent. I don't understand your problem. The accent is on the _third_ syllable, that is on the first "o" in "Kalma_go_rov". It is usual to put the stress mark ' in front of the accented syllable. On a related topi

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Tony T. Warnock
Aniko wrote: > > I don't understand your problem. The accent is on the _third_ syllable, > that is on the first "o" in "Kalma_go_rov". It is usual to put the stress > mark ' in front of the accented syllable. It is? I have three dictionaries in the office and all put the stress mark after the

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2000-10-25 Thread dennis roberts
a colleague of mine and i spent about 2 hours walking around the psu campus sunday ... beautiful day ... between us, took about 170 digital pictures ... all in the same venues ... some inside and most outside ... i have a sony mavica and he an hp ... and both had our settings on the BEST quali

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Jerry Dallal
Bob Hayden wrote: > > - Forwarded message from ?? - > > on the third syllable > [kalma' gorov] > > - End of forwarded message from ?? - > > I need help breaking "kalma" into three syllables?-) > The first one is silent.

Convergence criteria for Monte Carlo methods

2000-10-25 Thread Suhrid Balakrishnan
Hello all, I had some doubts regarding convergence criteria for Monte Carlo methods and would be really appreciative if anyone could help. In order to determine the range that outputs (concentrations of species) of a certain computer model (chemical reaction network) and trends in how they var

Re: Suggestion for dataset needed

2000-10-25 Thread dennis roberts
try this page from my website ... the first link has many downloadable MINITAB files ... and leads to other data set sites http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/datasets.htm At 01:58 PM 10/25/00 +, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: >I need to write up a case study of ordinary least squares >mult

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from ?? - on the third syllable [kalma' gorov] - End of forwarded message from ?? - I need help breaking "kalma" into three syllables?-) _ | |Robert W. Hayden | | Work: Departm

Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics in Splus

2000-10-25 Thread Cyril Goutte
Thanks for your reply. When I do ks.gof(1:10,rep(10,10)) on my system I get the same erroneous output I described earlier. The version I use is Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 so hopefully this has been corrected on newer versions... Best regards, Cyril. Dave Lorenz w

Suggestion for dataset needed

2000-10-25 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
I need to write up a case study of ordinary least squares multiple regression modeling using regression splines and bootstrap model validation. I have a lot of medical examples but would like an example from a discipline that is a big non-medical user of statistical modeling. I need a public- do

Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics in Splus

2000-10-25 Thread Dave Lorenz
Cyril, This is what i got from Splus when I tried the KS test. > ks.gof(1:10,rep(10,10)) Two-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test data: 1:10 and rep(10, 10) ks = 0.9, p-value = 0.0002 alternative hypothesis: cdf of 1:10 does not equal the cdf of rep(10, 10) for at least

Chemometrics Online

2000-10-25 Thread Ali Javey
Chemometrics ONLINE is a free educational tool that enables users to conduct powerful chemometric methods of analysis over the web. Users can send chemical data files along with certain commands to Chemometrics Online server, which then conducts the requested chemometrics analysis. hThe results a

Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics in Splus

2000-10-25 Thread Cyril Goutte
Hi all, I have a little worry with the way Splus calculates the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics. Consider the following samples: --- > ds1 [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > ds2 [1] 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 --- The output of the KS test is: --- > ks.gof(ds1,ds2) Two

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Ñâåòëàíà Ñòàëåâñêàÿ
on the third syllable [kalma'gorov] Hans Kiesl ïèøåò â ñîîáùåíèè <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... >This might be a silly question for most of you, but I'd like to know how >to pronounce "Kolmogorov" correctly. > >Is the stress on the second or on the third syllable? > >Thanks, > >Hans Kiesl ==

How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-25 Thread Hans Kiesl
This might be a silly question for most of you, but I'd like to know how to pronounce "Kolmogorov" correctly. Is the stress on the second or on the third syllable? Thanks, Hans Kiesl = Instructions for joining and leaving this li