The GOOD and FUN first day !

2001-09-22 Thread Voltolini
Hi,I am a biologist and new to teachingStats for undergraduate Biology students in a Brazilian University. I'd like to start off with something new in the first day class !!! The idea is toget the studentsattention for aGOOD and FUN world of thinking and avoid the idea that numbers are

Re: One more time--Two Factor Kruskal-Wallis

2001-09-22 Thread Donald Burrill
Hi, Carol. I'm taking the liberty of posting this to the Edstat (statistical education) list as well as the Minitab list. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Carol DiGiorgio wrote: My question is: I would like to run 2-way ANOVA on my data. Unfortunately it doesn't meet the assumptions of normality or

Re: definition of metric as a noun

2001-09-22 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 9ogurt$d79tc$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Neville X. Elliven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herman Rubin wrote: The OED cites the following use of metric as a noun: 1921 Proc. R. Soc. A. XCIX. 104 In the non-Euclidean geometry of Riemann, the metric is defined by certain quantities . . A good

Re: Free program to generate random samples

2001-09-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
Jon Cryer wrote: I wouldn't call bootstrapping sampling from a population. Would you? Actually, yes. The population defined by the original sample. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the

Re: Free program to generate random samples

2001-09-22 Thread Diego Kuonen
Jerry Dallal wrote: I wouldn't call bootstrapping sampling from a population. Would you? Actually, yes. The population defined by the original sample. More precisely: sampling with replacement from the original sample... Greets Diego Kuonen -- Diego DOT Kuonen AT epfl DOT ch

Re: definition of metric as a noun

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Wright
The phrase 'the metric' is being used here to signify the type of its class. This is perfectly ordinary usage, with no implication that there is only one member of the class. E.g. The pen is mightier than the sword. On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 03:09:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neville X. Elliven)

Re: Free program to generate random samples

2001-09-22 Thread Jerry Dallal
Diego Kuonen wrote: Jerry Dallal wrote: I wouldn't call bootstrapping sampling from a population. Would you? Actually, yes. The population defined by the original sample. More precisely: sampling with replacement from the original sample... Well, yes, but since my original