Warren Sarle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Telling the Truth About Damned Lies and Statistics
By JOEL BEST
[snip]
So the prospectus began with this (carefully footnoted) quotation: Every year
since 1950, the number of American children gunned down has doubled. I had
been invited to serve on the
He also says ... we have to ensure that the residual errors are not
correlated.
If the errors exhibit some correlation, then a transformation of the
residuals
is in order.
This seems to be wrong. Usually you analyze the residuals and if there is
serial correlation, consider alternate models
In article LUxI6.945$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Michael Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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...
