Robert Dawson wrote:
As far as random samples are concerned: it is *very* rare for a true
random sample, based on an equal-probability sample of the population to
which the inference is intended to extend, to be taken. Say a researcher is
studying the behaviour of humans. (S)he may take
I thought everone knew there was a difference in Anatomy between male
and female professors! ;)
At 12:19 PM 4/20/00 +0100, you wrote:
dennis roberts wrote:
At 10:32 AM 4/17/00 -0300, Robert Dawson wrote:
There's a chapter in J. Utts' mostly wonderful but flawed low-math
intro
text
Joe Ward wrote:
Yes, there occasionally were discussions in our Air Force research
whether or not we were working with the POPULATION or a SAMPLE.
As Dennis comments:
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| the flaw here is that ... she has population data i presume ... or about
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| close as one can come to it ... within the
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:07:56 GMT, Charles D Madewell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a working engineer and part time graduate student I do not even
understand why anyone would want to do away with hypothesis testing.
I have spent many, many hours of my graduate school life learning,
reading,
At 03:37 PM 4/18/00 -0400, Rich Ulrich wrote:
I don't know how well they handle real data, but (a) Dennis has seemed
to fail this STANDARD, on certain hypothetical questions. However, I
don't like those hypothetical questions, because it is too easy to
pretend that they are something else. I
Spot on, Robert.
Alan
Robert Dawson wrote:
Joe Ward wrote:
Yes, there occasionally were discussions in our Air Force research
whether or not we were working with the POPULATION or a SAMPLE.
As Dennis comments:
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| the flaw here is that ... she has population data i presume ... or
Hi Dennis,
Robert's observation is 'spot on' because it is the way things are, rather than the
way we would like to think things are. I (of course) agree that people writing
papers should have some sense of proportion the claims made in their papers.
Nevertheless, if you want to study the gag
At 10:32 AM 4/17/00 -0300, Robert Dawson wrote:
There's a chapter in J. Utts' mostly wonderful but flawed low-math intro
text "Seeing Through Statistics", in which she does much the same. She
presents a case study based on some of her own work in which she looked at
the question of gender
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From: dennis roberts
At 10:32 AM 4/17/00 -0300, Robert Dawson wrote:
There's a chapter in J. Utts' mostly wonderful but flawed low-math
intro
text "Seeing Through Statistics", in which she does much the same. She
presents a case study based on some of her
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The way this world is ---
A master's candidate, or a phD candidate, or a professor,
or a working scientist, has put a lot into his project.
In terms of time, in terms of money, and more
At 08:07 PM 4/17/00 +, Charles D Madewell wrote:
As a working engineer and part time graduate student I do not even
understand why anyone would want to do away with hypothesis testing.
I have spent many, many hours of my graduate school life learning,
reading, calculating, and analyzing
Subject: Re: hyp testing -Reply
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| - Original Message -
| From: dennis roberts
| At 10:32 AM 4/17/00 -0300, Robert Dawson wrote:
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| There's a chapter in J. Utts' mostly wonderful but flawed low-math
| intro
| text "Seeing Through Statistics", in which she does much the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], bill knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07 2:46 pm
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The way this world is ---
A master's candidate, or a phD candidate, or a professor,
or a
dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07 2:46 pm
i was not suggesting taking away from our arsenal of tricks ... but, since
i was one of those old guys too ... i am wondering if we were mostly lead
astray ...?
the more i work with statistical methods, the less i see any meaningful (at
Then, follow up your t test with a statement of the effect size and its
associated confidence interval.
---Jerry Zar
dennis roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07 2:46 pm
i was not suggesting taking away from our arsenal of tricks ... but,
since
i was one of those old guys too ... i am wondering
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