RE: Chi-square chart in Excel

2002-02-21 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronny Richardson Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Chi-square chart in Excel Can anyone tell me how to produce a chart of the chi-square distribution in Excel? (I

An Interesting Student Problem

2002-02-04 Thread David Heiser
Was Darwin's statement It has been experimentally proved that if a plot of ground be sown with one species of grass, and a similar plot be sown with several distinct genera of grasses, a greater number of plants and a greater weight of dry herbage can be raised, a valid statement? In the 25th

RE: Interpreting multiple regression Beta is only way?

2002-02-04 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wuzzy Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Interpreting mutliple regression Beta is only way? ... I've heard of ridge regression will try to investigate this

RE: how to adjust for variables

2002-01-24 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wuzzy Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to adjust for variables I find it extremely difficult to interpret multivariate equations. Are there any good books

RE: Faults and Errors in EXCEL

2002-01-21 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Humberto Barreto Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:29 AM To: David Heiser; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Faults and Errors in EXCEL At 05:41 PM 1/20/02 -0800, David Heiser wrote: These are my questions

Faults and Errors in EXCEL

2002-01-20 Thread David Heiser
I have gone through McCullough and Wilson, two of the papers from the Stern school (Simon and Simonoff), Cryer, and Goldwater and have workarounds or fixes for each of the problems that they raise (with data sets) about EXCEL. There is one however that I don't have a fix for. For example using

RE: How to compute Beta variates

2002-01-12 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of MIchael Bals Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to compute Beta variates Hi ! I am new to this group, so I hope you haven't been bothered too often with such

RE: Excel vs Quattro Pro

2002-01-12 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay Warner Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:45 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Excel vs Quattro Pro - Clap, clap, clap (sound of applause) DAHeiser

EXCEL 2000 Statistical ToolPac Faults and Problems

2002-01-08 Thread David Heiser
I have started going through McCullough and Wilson's paper On the Accuracy of Statistical Procedures in Microsoft Excel 2000. I have found one error, and may find more. However I need to put them all together, and that will take some time. My point is that the Excel 2000 faults are not that

RE: Stat Requirement (was Excel2000)

2002-01-06 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Firth Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stat Requirement (was Excel2000) Very good points. Appreciated. DAHeiser

RE: Excel2000- the same errors in stat. computations and graphics

2002-01-05 Thread David Heiser
if the intent is to produce good visual display of quantitative information!Isn't that what graphs are for?[David Heiser] The EXCEL chart defaults are as you say are poor,for an audience/usersof statisticians/scientists/engineers. Even going to the effort to make a lot of changes

RE: Stat Requirement (was Excel2000)

2002-01-05 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Firth Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stat Requirement (was Excel2000) thank you for your response Thanks for the wealth of Excel trivia. Use the right tool

RE: Excel2000- the same errors in stat. computations and graphics

2002-01-04 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shareef Siddeek Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Excel2000- the same errors in stat. computations and graphics Happy new year to all. I frequently use Excel2000 for

RE: Question about concatenating probability distributions

2001-12-10 Thread David Heiser
RE: The Poisson process and Lognormal action time. This kind of problem arises a lot in the actuarial literature (a process for the number of claims and a process for the claim size), and the Poisson and the lognormal have been used in this context - it might be worth your while to look there

RE: What is a confidence interval?

2001-09-27 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gordon D. Pusch Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What is a confidence interval? John Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is the second time I have seen

RE: what type of distribution on this sampling

2001-09-21 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Galenko Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what type of distribution on this sampling Just out of curiousity, I'd like to know what kind of population you

Comment on Powerball---Expected Value

2001-09-01 Thread David Heiser
Jordan Ellenberg has an interesting comment on the statistical aspects of the expected value of a Powerball ticket. It was posted on Microsoft Internet Explored, Saturday Sept 1st under Slate. If you can't get it, I saved the text version and can send it as an e-mail attachment upon request. Try

RE: Bayesian analyses in education

2001-07-12 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KKARMA Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bayesian analyses in education As a teacher of research methodology in (music) education I am interested in the relation

FW: Diagnosing and addressing co linearity in Survival Analysis

2001-06-06 Thread David Heiser
-Original Message- From: David Heiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:55 PM To: ELANMEL Subject: RE: Diagnosing and addressing co linearity in Survival Analysis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

The False Placebo Effect

2001-05-24 Thread David Heiser
Be careful on your assumptions in your models and studies! --- Placebo Effect An Illusion, Study Says By Gina Kolata New York Times (Published in the Sacramento Bee, Thursday, May 24, 2001) In a new report that is being met with a mixture of

Re: [Q] Generate a Simple Linear Model

2001-03-29 Thread David Heiser
well, if you have access to a routine that will generate two variables with specified r ... then, you can do it ... i have one that runs in minitab ... it is a macro ... and i know that jon cryer has one too ... http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/macro.htm ... check #1 ... I am not

Re: multivariate normality

2001-03-08 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: "yogab" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:23 PM Subject: multivariate normality Hello all., Iam using mutivariate normality test (Mardia 1974) to check for normaility for my sample set of size 1000 (multivariate

Re: probability definition

2001-03-02 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: "Alex Yu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Shareef Siddeek" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 5:01 PM Subject: Re: probability definition 1. Very Interesting. Would it be possible to get a copy of your paper on Probability. I gave a

Re: stat question

2000-11-23 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: Herman Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 4:55 PM Subject: Re: stat question Herman Rubin wrote: anyone wanting to learn good statistics should not even consider taking an "undergraduate" statistics course

Re: Help needed ... :-(

2000-11-14 Thread David Heiser
Based on the problems we have in ansering vague questions on edstat, I can say that any requestor must be able to state the question, so we here (using American English) can understand what he is saying and give a helpful answer. It is obvious that all of us have problems understanding the

Re: Two t tests

2000-11-03 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: Robert J. MacG. Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Two t tests Richard Lehman wrote: A colleague sent me this note. A statistics question.

Re: November Issue of SecondMoment

2000-11-02 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:32 AM Subject: November Issue of SecondMoment Now I know why data mining is considered so much hog wash. No attempt to deal with uncertainty or to quantify it. Everything is gospel

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-17 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:24 PM Subject: Re: questions on hypothesis In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris: That's not what Jerry means. What he's saying is that if your sample size is large enough, a

Re: questions on hypothesis

2000-10-14 Thread David Heiser
- Original Message - From: Ting Ting [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 10:57 PM Subject: Re: questions on hypothesis A good example of a simple situation for which exact P values are unavailable is the Behrens-Fisher problem (testing the