Please help

2001-05-04 Thread Adil Abubakar
My name is Adil Abubakar and i am a student.and seek help . I have a question if anyone can help, please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Person A did research on a total of 4500 people and got the follwoing results Q How many hours do you spend on the web 0-7 8-15 15+

Estimating priors for Bayesian analysis

2001-05-04 Thread Will Hopkins
I've gone to a lot of trouble to add Bayesian adjustment in a spreadsheet for estimating confidence limits of an individual's true score when the subject is assessed with a noisy test. I specify the prior belief simply by stating a best guess of the true score, and its x% likely limits, with

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Would like to ask the design of experiment gurus to help me with the following questions: 1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? The computations get easier. 2. which problems may I encounter if I use

Re: Combinometrics

2001-05-04 Thread Jerry Dallal
Herman Rubin wrote: I also doubt whether learning to compute answers gives any insight into the concepts, except for those with good research potential, and even there it tends to confuse. It depends on what learning to compute means. (*I'm* saying this in repsonse to a comment from Prf.

Re: errors in journal articles

2001-05-04 Thread jim clark
Hi On 3 May 2001, Warren Sarle wrote: 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

Re: Combinometrics

2001-05-04 Thread Herman Rubin
In article 9ctkri$fjvug$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Neville X. Elliven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Heiser wrote: We seem to have a lot of recent questions involving combinations, and probabilities of combinations. I am puzzled. Are these concepts no longer taught as a fundamental starting point in

Re: Analysis of a time series of categorical data

2001-05-04 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 3 May 2001 09:46:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Mark Sharp; Ext. 476) wrote: If there is a better venue for this question, please advise me. - an epidemiology mailing list? [ snip, much detail ] Time point 1Time point 2Time point 3Time point 4 Hosts Inf

Inference by Bootstrapping

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Robbins
I am fooling around with a paper that talks about how to do inferences, like constructing confidence intervals, with the bootstrap method for inference... because the assumption of i.i.d erros is reasonable... also... it is unlikely that the cumulative distribution functions of our estimators are

Re: Q: Arithmetic, Harmonic, Geometric, etc., Means

2001-05-04 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Stanley110 wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, What is the physical significance or meaning regarding a manufacturing process whose output over an extended period of time has the same value for the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic mean of a property, its purity, for example? ... Or if any

No Subject

2001-05-04 Thread Carl Huberty
Why do articles appear in print when study methods, analyses, results, and conclusions are somewhat faulty? [This may be considered as a follow-up to an earlier edstat interchange.] My first, and perhaps overly critical, response is that the editorial practices are faulty. I don't find

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Bob Wheeler
Since other respondents have given the official answer which is an oversimplification that has become dogma, and is too often offered up without adequate explanation. For the most part the desire for absolute orthogonality comes from the pre-computer era when it was difficult to design and

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2001-05-04 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Carl Huberty wrote: Why do articles appear in print when study methods, analyses, results, and conclusions are somewhat faulty?... I can think of two reasons: 1) journal editors can not or do not send manuscripts to reviewers with statistical analysis expertise; and 2) manuscript

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Francois Bergeret
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --DBD3C05A63C0BFD0F8B0E075 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello, Orthogonality is very important because it is an insurance that the estimation of the effect of a factor is not dependant or the

Re: Please help

2001-05-04 Thread Donald Burrill
I rather think the problem is not adequately defined; but that may merely reflect the fact that it's a homework problem, and homework problems often require highly simplifying assumptions in order to be addressed at all. See comments below. On Fri, 4 May 2001, Adil Abubakar wrote: My name

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Donald Burrill
Short answers below; which may or may not adequately address the lurking questions you had in mind. On Fri, 4 May 2001, Jeff wrote: Would like to ask [for] help with the following questions: 1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? So that results for each factor, and each

Re: errors in journal articles

2001-05-04 Thread Thom Baguley
Warren Sarle wrote: It reminds me of the recent headline in The Sunday Times (a leading UK newspaper) that taxes had tripled under the present UK government. As a bonus, the tax level when the government took power, and reported in the article as part of the argument, was something around 37% of

Re: Estimating priors for Bayesian analysis

2001-05-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4 May 2001 04:11:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hopkins) wrote: For example, I might believe that the individual's true score is 70 units, and that the likely range is +/- 10 units. So what describes likely? 90%, 95%, 99%...? Do Bayesians have any validated way to work that out? If

Re: Estimating methods in SEM

2001-05-04 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kai Arzheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [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

Re: Orthogonality of Designs for Experiments

2001-05-04 Thread Jerry Dallal
Herman Rubin wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Would like to ask the design of experiment gurus to help me with the following questions: 1. why designs for experiments should be orthogonal ? The computations get easier. Also, the

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2001-05-04 Thread dennis roberts
At 09:44 AM 5/4/01 -0700, Carl Huberty wrote: Why do articles appear in print when study methods, analyses, results, and conclusions are somewhat faulty? [This may be considered as a follow-up to an earlier edstat interchange.] My first, and perhaps overly critical, response is

Q: Arithmetic, Harmonic, Geometric, etc., Means

2001-05-04 Thread Stanley110
Ladies and Gentlemen, What is the physical significance or meaning regarding a manufacturing process whose output over an extended period of time has the same value for the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic mean of a property, its purity, for example? What is the physical significance or

Re: Combinometrics

2001-05-04 Thread Neville X. Elliven
David Heiser wrote: We seem to have a lot of recent questions involving combinations, and probabilities of combinations. I am puzzled. Are these concepts no longer taught as a fundamental starting point in stat? I haven't seen a Combinatorics course in a college class schedule in nearly twenty