Re: On inappropriate hypothesis testing. Was: MIT Sexism & statistical

2001-02-14 Thread jim clark
Hi I'm not too sure who presented the following example, as the e-mail account and the signature (see below) were different. Nor was I completely clear what point was being made with the following analogy. Anyway, ... On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Irving Scheffe wrote: > let me suggest the following p

Help needed with sample size decision

2001-02-14 Thread Mob
Could someone have some insights? Suppose that based on one measurement X, a sample size of N will be enough to give me sufficient precision of the population mean with a certain power. Now, suppose we can only measure Y, but Y is highly correlated with X, say with .9 correlation, is there any e

Re: On inappropriate hypothesis testing. Was: MIT Sexism & statistical bunk

2001-02-14 Thread dennis roberts
At 07:58 PM 2/14/01 +, Irving Scheffe wrote: >Gene, whether gene was correct or not, it seems problematic to me to be on the one hand be arguing that this is really not an inference problem ... and then say that it was perfectly reasonable for a statistician to sign his/her name to it i

On inappropriate hypothesis testing. Was: MIT Sexism & statistical bunk

2001-02-14 Thread Irving Scheffe
Gene, You have made extended comments about the IWF report "Confession without Guilt?" (at http://www.iwf.org/news/mitfinal.pdf about women biologists at MIT. Some background information: The IWF is the second in a series criticizing the MIT report on the Status of Women. The o

Re: multtest

2001-02-14 Thread Jerry Dallal
dennis roberts wrote: > > someone posted a url recently (that i have lost obviously) to a demo about > getting significant results when the null is true ... but doing multiple > tests ... the file i think was > > multtest.htm ... > > anyone know from whence this came? thanks > > __

multtest

2001-02-14 Thread dennis roberts
i found the multtest i was looking for ... posted by gerry dallal ... http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/multtest.htm just for fun ... i repeated this "test" 20 times ... with the following frequency distribution of the number out of 20 what i was told TO PUBLISH!!! 0 = 6 p = .3 1 = 9 p = .45 2

RE: multtest

2001-02-14 Thread Scheltema, Karen
http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/multtest.htm This is from Gerry Dallal. Karen Scheltema Statistician HealthEast Research and Education 1700 University Ave W St. Paul, MN 55104 (651) 232-5212 fax (651) 641-0683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: dennis roberts [SMTP:[EMAIL PR

multtest

2001-02-14 Thread dennis roberts
someone posted a url recently (that i have lost obviously) to a demo about getting significant results when the null is true ... but doing multiple tests ... the file i think was multtest.htm ... anyone know from whence this came? thanks ___

Re: Regression analysis.

2001-02-14 Thread William B. Ware
Sounds more like an accounting problem than a statistical problem... WBW __ William B. Ware, Professor and Chair Educational Psychology, CB# 3500 Measurement, and Evaluatio

Re: ANOVA : Repeated Measures?

2001-02-14 Thread Sylvain Clément
Thank you very much for your answer to my problem. Your explanation are very clear & precise. I wish I could have meet a professor in stats as clear as you are during my high school education. Sylvain Clement At 14:19 09/02/2001 -0500, Donald Burrill wrote: >If for each Subject