Re: hyp testing -Reply

2000-04-18 Thread Robert Dawson
Joe Ward wrote: Yes, there occasionally were discussions in our Air Force research whether or not we were working with the POPULATION or a SAMPLE. As Dennis comments: | | the flaw here is that ... she has population data i presume ... or about | as | close as one can come to it ... within the

Want to buy: Optimal Stopping Rules (Shiryayev)

2000-04-18 Thread Bakulesh
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Re: split half reliability

2000-04-18 Thread Paul R Swank
Depends on whether you consider a lack of item homogeneity as unreliability or not. If your content is supposed to be homogeneous then a lack of homogeneity implies your test has problems. If your content is not necessarily homogeneous then the reduced alpha appears to say that your test is

Psychometrics Listserv

2000-04-18 Thread ethan arenson
Please forgive my cross-posting, but I am trying to reach as many people as possible. I'd like to present another avenue through which people can post comments and questions about psychometrics and about graduate study in educational measurement. To minimize spamming, only subscribers can

Re: Hypothesis testing and magic - episode 2

2000-04-18 Thread Jerry Dallal
Herman Rubin wrote: The truth myth is highly persistent. We have the Delaney Clause, which requires the FDA to ban any additive "which has been found to cause cancer in humans or animals". Now what does this mean? It is unlikely that anything does not affect the cancer rate. We do not

Significance of cross-correlation

2000-04-18 Thread G. Anthony Reina
I have two physiological signals (discharge rate of a neuron and electrical voltage [EMG] of a muscle). I'd like to determine the cross-correlation between the two signals as a function of time (i.e. if a "relationship" between the two signals exists, how does this "relationship" change over

Re: split half reliability

2000-04-18 Thread Paul R Swank
I have never said that split half is better in general. In general, alpha is probably better. But in those instances when alpha doesn't fit, the split half technique may be quite useful. Coefficent alpha is based upon a model like all of statistics. If the model is inappropriate, then some other

Re: hyp testing -Reply

2000-04-18 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:07:56 GMT, Charles D Madewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a working engineer and part time graduate student I do not even understand why anyone would want to do away with hypothesis testing. I have spent many, many hours of my graduate school life learning, reading,

multiple regression in excel

2000-04-18 Thread Marco Antonio Chamon
Hi, Everyone has a program (in excel) to performe multiple linear regression? If possible, I'd appreciate to have a copy. Thank you in advance. --Marco A. Chamon === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less

Re: Finding statistical significance between 2 groups with categorical variables

2000-04-18 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:26:16 -0700, einsetein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reformating .. We have 2 groups reporting on the major problem for attending college. You have identified two groups, after the fact? ... We are trying to see if the different response numbers are statistically

Re: hyp testing -Reply

2000-04-18 Thread dennis roberts
At 03:37 PM 4/18/00 -0400, Rich Ulrich wrote: I don't know how well they handle real data, but (a) Dennis has seemed to fail this STANDARD, on certain hypothetical questions. However, I don't like those hypothetical questions, because it is too easy to pretend that they are something else. I

Re: hyp testing -Reply

2000-04-18 Thread Alan McLean
Spot on, Robert. Alan Robert Dawson wrote: Joe Ward wrote: Yes, there occasionally were discussions in our Air Force research whether or not we were working with the POPULATION or a SAMPLE. As Dennis comments: | | the flaw here is that ... she has population data i presume ... or

Re: The best effect size

2000-04-18 Thread Rich Ulrich
Here is a little bit of answer ... On 17 Apr 2000 07:39:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert McGrath) wrote: Snip. Concerning predictors based on field studies. ... predictors were all dichotomous, were related to a series of criteria, some of which were dichotomous and some of which were

Re: hyp testing -Reply

2000-04-18 Thread Alan McLean
Hi Dennis, Robert's observation is 'spot on' because it is the way things are, rather than the way we would like to think things are. I (of course) agree that people writing papers should have some sense of proportion the claims made in their papers. Nevertheless, if you want to study the gag