Dr. H.A. David ' article about central tendency in ISI Review

2001-02-23 Thread Jineshwar Singh
Dr. H.A. David published an article in ISI Review on a historical background on central tendency of data.More details about this article or who coined the word" mean/median/mode" would be very much appreciated. Jineshwar Singh Business Department George Brown College St .James campus [EMAIL PROT

Type III errors

2001-02-23 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
Recently there was a discussion here involving the phrase "Type III errors." I noted that others have used that phrase to mean inferring the incorrect direction of effect after rejecting a nondirectional hypothesis, but I was unable to give references. This week I stumbled across references

Re: pizza

2001-02-23 Thread dennis roberts
a concern i have in this situation ... and why i posed the question is as follows since it is a taste test ... Ss will taste the pizzas ... so, the notion of just selecting ONE and saying it is different seems not a reasonble scenario so, what would a resonable guessing scenario be? one might be

Re: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Rich Ulrich
On 23 Feb 2001 12:08:45 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scheltema, Karen) wrote: > I tried the site but received errors trying to download it. It couldn't > find the FTP site. Has anyone else been able to access it? As of a few minutes ago, it downloaded fine for me, when I clicked on it with Inter

RE: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread DJNordlund
>I tried the site but received errors trying to download it. It couldn't >find the FTP site. Has anyone else been able to access it? > >Karen Scheltema >Statistician >HealthEast >Research and Education >1700 University Ave W >St. Paul, MN 55104 >(651) 232-5212 fax (651) 641-0683 >[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: pizza

2001-02-23 Thread Mike Granaas
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, dennis roberts wrote: > > but, what is really the p for success? q for failure? > > is this situation of n=10 ... really a true binomial case where p for > success is 1/3 under the assumption that simple guessing were the way in > which tasters made their decisions? I

Time series analysis with Excel macro

2001-02-23 Thread Hervé Lombard
C'est un message de format MIME en plusieurs parties. --=_NextPart_000_0012_01C09DDD.8A717B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there a site where I can download an Excel macro that would enable me = to analyse a time series

Rice statistic

2001-02-23 Thread RAFFAELE NUTRICATO
Hallo I am new, my problem is simple but I have not found a solution:.. I spoke with a lot of professors of my University, but without results. the problem is: suppose you have the follow process: A+x+i*y where A is a real positive constant while x and y are gaussian random variates with null me

pizza

2001-02-23 Thread dennis roberts
let's say that you have 'students' (they love pizza you know!) who claim they can easily tell the difference between brands of pizza (pizza hut, dominoes, etc.) ... so, you put them up to the challenge you select 10 students at random ... and, arrange a taste test as follows: you have some pip

RE: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Scheltema, Karen
I tried the site but received errors trying to download it. It couldn't find the FTP site. Has anyone else been able to access it? Karen Scheltema Statistician HealthEast Research and Education 1700 University Ave W St. Paul, MN 55104 (651) 232-5212 fax (651) 641-0683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---

Re: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Chuck Cleland
"Scheltema, Karen" wrote: > Can anyone point me to software for estimating ANCOVA or regression sample > sizes based on effect size? Look here: http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/steiger/r2.htm Chuck -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>- Chuck Cleland In

Re: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Alex Yu
You can use Sample Power from SPSS (a.k.a. Power and Preceision) or PASS 2000 from NCSS. For more info, please visit: http://www.spss.com http://www.ncss.com http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~alex/teaching/WBI/power_es.html --- --"Regression to the mean" is not always true. After 30, my weight neve

RE: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Scheltema, Karen
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for! 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: Magill, Brett [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Frid

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

2001-02-23 Thread Radford Neal
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, if you don't have "statistical power," then you don't ask > for a 5% test, or (maybe) any test at all. The JUSTIFICATION for > having a test on the MIT data is that the power is sufficient to say > something. The

Re: Summary: Patenting a statistical innovation

2001-02-23 Thread Petr Kuzmic
"T.S. Lim" wrote: > > Thanks much to all who have replied. Algorithms and software can > be and have been patented (at least in the US). It appears that > major statistical societies have no explicit guidelines regarding > patent (?). Just hope that patenting statistical innovations won't > bec

RE: Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Magill, Brett
G*Power is a powere analysis package that is freely available. You can download it at: http://www.psychologie.uni-trier.de:8000/projects/gpower.html You can calculate a sample size for a given effect size, alpha level, and power value. -Original Message- From: Scheltema, Karen [mail

Sample size question

2001-02-23 Thread Scheltema, Karen
Can anyone point me to software for estimating ANCOVA or regression sample sizes based on effect size? Karen Scheltema Statistician HealthEast Research and Education 1700 University Ave W St. Paul, MN 55104 (651) 232-5212 fax (651) 641-0683 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =