Thanks, Rich. My semi-automatic crap detector hits DELETE when it sees
things like this anyway; but... did you notice that although SamFaz
(or whoever, really) claims to cite a bill passed by the U.S. Congress
he she or it is actually writing from Canada?
I'm not quite sure what to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodney Carr) writes:
The problem I am having is that I'm not sure what estimating method
to use. EQS implements a number of different methods (Maximum
Likelihood, Least Squares, GLS, etc). Unfortunately they give quite
different results. Actually, LS gives fit indices
Glen Barnett wrote:
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As a piece of general advice, take a look at George Polya's book
How To Solve It. It's a very old book, but it contains some very useful
advice.
a summary of Polya's approach (but
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A friend of mine sent me the following and, I decided to scan and post.
These relate to old interpretations of NEW technology terms like ... modem,
mega hertz, and the like. Some of these are a HOOT!
It's best to follow the links in order ... some frames follow after others.
I HAVE THIS FEELING
David Heiser wrote:
We seem to have a lot of recent questions involving combinations, and
probabilities of combinations.
I've never seen multiset enumeration in elementary stats texts, perhaps
because it is not very useful as a sampling model. While a multiset can
certainly be the
There was a recent discussion here of errors in journal articles. A
related topic is incomplete information, or at least what I consider
incomplete information.
A recent article in the American Journal of Epidemiology (2001, Vol 153,
No 6, 596-603) contains some nicely laid out (and badly
If there is a better venue for this question, please advise me.
I am looking for methods to analyze categorical data similar to that
shown below. If the results were quantitative, I believe that an
analysis of covariance would be appropriate. However, with
categorical data and relatively
Joel Best is a professor of sociology and criminal
justice at the University of Delaware. This essay is
excerpted from _Damned Lies and Statistics:
Untangling Numbers From the Media, Politicians, and
Activists_, just published by the University of
California Press
Telling the Truth About
