Re: ANOVA and regression

2001-05-30 Thread jim clark
Hi On 29 May 2001, Alex Yu wrote: Does anyone know any book/paper/website about teaching the relationship between ANOVA and regression? I have Data Analysis for Research Designs by Keppel. I also seached www.jstor.org but could not find anything. I am interested in seeing what approaches

Re: The False Placebo Effect

2001-05-25 Thread jim clark
Hi On 24 May 2001, David Heiser wrote: Be careful on your assumptions in your models and studies! --- Placebo Effect An Illusion, Study Says By Gina Kolata New York Times (Published in the Sacramento Bee, Thursday, May 24, 2001) ... He and

Re: A regressive question

2001-05-16 Thread jim clark
Hi On 15 May 2001, Alan McLean wrote: The usual test for a simple linear regression model is to test whether the slope coefficient is zero or not. However, if the slope is very close to zero, the intercept will be very close to the dependent variable mean, which suggests that a test could be

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: Artifacts in stats: (Was Student's t vs. z tests)

2001-04-25 Thread jim clark
Hi On 25 Apr 2001, Alan McLean wrote: I agree - although students do need tables in (written) exams... But we use a computer program called Tuteman in our teaching and testing, so the natural way to find critical values or p-values is via the computer - we use Excel mainly. In general, I

Re: FW: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-24 Thread jim clark
Hi On 24 Apr 2001, Mark W. Humphries wrote: I concur. As I mentioned at the start of this thread, I am self-learning statistics from books. I have difficulty telling what is being taught as necessary theoretical 'scaffolding' or 'superceded procedures', and what one would actually apply in a

Re: Student's t vs. z tests

2001-04-21 Thread jim clark
Hi On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, dennis roberts wrote: At 10:58 AM 4/20/01 -0500, jim clark wrote: What does a t-distribution mean to a student who does not know what a binomial distribution is and how to calculate the probabilities, and who does not know what a normal distribution is and how

Re: partial correlations

2001-04-07 Thread jim clark
Hi On 7 Apr 2001, Dianne Worth wrote: After several years of frustration with SAS, I am migrating to SPSS. I am currently working on a project in both packages, to ensure accuracy of results as I teach myself SPSS. I would like to obtain 1) the squared semi-partial correlation based on

Avoiding Linear Dependencies in Artificial Data Sets

2001-03-12 Thread jim clark
Hi I like to use small, artificially generated data sets with integer parameters to introduce analyses. Often, however, I find it difficult to avoid undesirable contingencies among the scores (e.g., linear dependencies in within-subject designs). Is there an algorithmic way to generate such

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

2001-03-12 Thread jim clark
Hi On 12 Mar 2001, Radford Neal wrote: Yes indeed. And the context in this case is the question of whether or not the difference in performance provides an alternative explanation for why the men were paid more (one supposes, no actual salary data has been released). In this context, all

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

2001-03-12 Thread jim clark
Hi On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Irving Scheffe wrote: Jim: For example, suppose you had a department in which the citation data were Males Females 12220 1298 2297 1102 When I said outlier, I had in mind hypothetical data of the following sort (it doesn't matter to me whether

Re: Two sided test with the chi-square distribution?

2001-02-06 Thread jim clark
Hi On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Thom Baguley wrote: Donald Burrill wrote: Well, it _might_ be. Depends on what hypothesis was being tested, doesn't it? And so far "rjkim" hasn't deigned to tell us that. Yes, though I think the vocabulary can obscure what goes on. To me a "one-tailed" test

Re: AW: eigenvalue: origin of term

2001-01-21 Thread jim clark
Hi On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Bob Wheeler wrote: I can't find a paper by anyone named Cohen with a title resembling what you give in CIS. Perhaps you can improve the citation. Cohen, J. (1968). Multiple regression as a general data-analytic system. Psychological Bulletin, 70, 426-443. Best