Re: Means of semantic differential scales

. But this will be a model, using a number of assumptions - as all these things are. It is important that you recognise this modelling aspect of your data definition. Regards, Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus

Re: Statistical Distributions

to it. Regards, Alan At 06:36 PM 2/17/02 -0500, Timothy W. Victor wrote: I also think Alan's idea is sound. I start my students off with some binomial expansion theory. Alan McLean wrote: This is a good idea, Dennis. I would like to see the sequence start with the binomial - in a very

Re: Statistical Distributions

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Re: One-tailed, two-tailed

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Re: used books

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Re: Interpreting p-value = .99

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Re: best inference

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Re: Evaluating students

Thom Baguley wrote: Alan McLean wrote: This describes a BAD closed book exam. It also describes a bad open book exam. Not entirely. I have found that many students still worry about such things regardless of the information they have about the exam. A good one-hour exam would

Re: Evaluating students

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Re: Evaluating students

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Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

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Re: Help for DL students in doing assignments

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Re: Mean and Standard Deviation

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Re: ranging opines about the range

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Re: They look different; are they really?

test) from the other? Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne Tel: +61 03 9903 2102Fax: +61 03 9903 2007 = Instructions

Re: effect size/significance

need to teach how to use all of the tools wisely because all of the tools are prone to abuse and misinterpretation. Spot on! Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne Tel: +61 03 9903 2102Fax

Re: Definitions of Likert scale, Likert item, etc.

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Re: Definitions of Likert scale, Likert item, etc.

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Re: Definitions of Likert scale, Likert item, etc.

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Re: Venn diagram program?

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Re: Forecasting Seasonal Indices Question (Long)

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Re: regressive question

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Re: A question

Thanks, Robert, and to anyone else who has kindly answered what I realised, belatedly, was a simple question (given that I was looking for the simple normal case.) Regards, Alan Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: Alan McLean wrote: Hi to all. Can anyone tell me what is the distribution

A question

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Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

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Re: p- values Was: Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z

. Here is a p value alone: 0.023456789 Of course it tells me nothing - of importance or otherwise. Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne Tel: +61 03 9903 2102Fax: +61 03 9903 2007

Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

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Re: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote: Alan McLean wrote: The p value is a direct measure of 'strength of evidence'. and Lise DeShea responded: I disagree. The p-value may be small when a study has enormous power yet a small effect size. A p-value by itself doesn't say much

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

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Re: Student's t vs. z tests

/20/01 +1000, Alan McLean wrote: So the two good reasons are - that the z test is the basis for the t, and the understanding that knowledge has a very direct value. I hasten to add that 'knowledge' here is always understood to be 'assumed knowledge' - as it always is in statistics. My eight

Re: normal approx. to binomial

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[Fwd: Re: Statistical teaching/learning software]

Original Message Subject: Re: Statistical teaching/learning software Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:57:13 +1000 From: Catherine Rytmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: DEFS, Macquarie University To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Alan, For some reason (although I can receive the

Re: elementary prob./stats concepts

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Statistical teaching/learning software

special interest is in the use of randomisation by these resources/tools/packages. I would appreciate it if people could tell me what they know of such. Thanks in advance, Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield

Re: Most Common Mistake In Statistical Inference

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Re: One tailed vs. Two tailed test

. Regards, Alan Jerry Dallal wrote: We don't really disagree. Any apparent disagreement is probably due to the abbreviated kind of discussion that takes place in Usenet. See http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/onesided.htm Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My point however is still

Re: One tailed vs. Two tailed test

on the basis of simplicity. In a court case we decide on the basis of fairness. In the case of research we decide on the basis of accepted theory. Hypothesis testing is certainly not passe! Regards, Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash

Re: Two sided test with the chi-square distribution?

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Re: p values

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Re: p values

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Re: p values

dennis roberts wrote: At 08:42 AM 1/31/01 +1100, Alan McLean wrote: It doesn't say anything about the actual value - and why should it? It is not a measure of the value, but a measure of the strength of the (sample) evidence *about* the value! Alan alan, seems like we are going

Re: p values

dennis roberts wrote: At 12:14 PM 1/31/01 +1100, Alan McLean wrote: For hypothesis testing there does have to be a null model - that is the first feature that identifies hypothesis testing from other forms of model selection. check A hypothesis test is only carried out

Re: The meaning of the p value

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Quantiles in Excel

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Re: Software (fwd)

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Re: Re : Hypothesis testing

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Re:

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Laplace quote

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Re: .05 level of significance

ark figure. Regards, Alan -- Alan McLean (alan.buseco.monash.edu.au) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne Tel: +61 03 9903 2102Fax: +61 03 9903 2007 = In

Hypothesis testing

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Re: memorizing formulas

ly depends on the particular (type of) stats course. 2. I would find 'ability to think analytically' hard to distinguish from 'mathematical aptitude' - although I accept that some narrow definitions of both characteristics may have minimal overlap. Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Ec

Re: About Probability

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Re: What are the differences between Statistics and Econometric?

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Re: Point vs. Interal estimation

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'Components of chi square'

about its validity, and frankly don't understand why textbooks do not refer to it.) Can anyone give me a reference to it? Ideally, a reference to its original publication. My thanks in advance. Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash

Re: Rates and proportions

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An interesting (I hope) problem

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Re: What is standard deviation exactly?

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Re: one-tailed vs. two-tailed tests

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Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

for helping to chip off some of the rust. I know there is a lot more. Regards, Alan "Donald F. Burrill" wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2000, Alan McLean wrote: 'No collinearity' *means* the X variables are uncorrelated! This is not my understanding. "Uncorrelated" means that the

Re: no correlation assumption among X's in MLR

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Re: hyp testing -Reply

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Re: hyp testing -Reply

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Re: linear model or interactive model?

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Re: normal distribution

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Re: Hypothesis testing and magic - episode 2

that measurement is a problem, but even with good measurement the lack of connection between statistical hypotheses and theoretical predictions is a fatal flaw in too many areas. Regards, Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University

Re: Hypothesis testing and magic - episode 2

the universe operates - we call these stories 'theories' or 'models'. Significance testing is one way in which we choose between stories as to which is (probably) more useful in a specified context. Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University

Hypothesis testing and magic - episode 2

the machine will not be stopped. Traditional hypothesis testing does incorporate a decision-theoretic loss function – the p-value. Regards again, Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne Tel: +61 03 9903

Hypothesis testing and magic

should not be confused. Regards, Alan -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne Tel: +61 03 9903 2102Fax: +61 03 9903 2007

Re: teaching statistical methods by rules?

as easy to compute as the p-value for z. Regards, Alan -- Tjen-Sien Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.Recursive-Partitioning.com Get your free Web-based email! http://recursive-partitioning.zzn.com -- Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED