Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Svetlana Staleuskaya
I am native russian speaker. so, Chebisev can be pronounced both _Che_bishev and Cheby_shov_. These both variants are used equally often. It is my final and ultimate answer. :)) Aniko ÐÉÛÅÔ × ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÉ <8t7bpp$iju$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... >>> >>> I need help breaking "kalma" into three syllables?

Which book do you recommend for math stat?

2000-10-26 Thread vrendeler
Comments, please, on the relative merits of the standard textbooks: Bickel & Doksum Casella & Berger Cox & Hinkley Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and rema

Re: Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics in Splus

2000-10-26 Thread Cyril Goutte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 > > > This is the version I have, and I just tried ks.gos on rnorm(100) twice, > rnorm(1000) and rexp(1000) once each. In all 4 cases Splus rejected the > the hypothesis that there's a fit at at least one sample p

Re: Suggestion for dataset needed

2000-10-26 Thread T.S. Lim
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank E Harrell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to write up a case study of ordinary least squares > multiple regression modeling using regression splines and > bootstrap model validation. I have a lot of medical examples > but would like an example from a

Documentation Specialist Seeking Contract Work

2000-10-26 Thread writer
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Statistics of re-use of data

2000-10-26 Thread Maarten D. de Jong
Can anyone point me to a good article or book on the statistics of reusing (independent) data? I am working on a problem where the position and velocity of a tracer particle is determined by 'condensing' blocks of independent measurement data. The 'condensing' rather resembles an average, albeit a

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Alexander Tsyplakov
Mardo, John G [AMSTA-AR-QAW-P] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > Have any of you ever actually heard Dr. Kolmogorov or his parents pronounce > his name? If not, then you cannot really be sure of the proper way to > pronounce it. My name is fairly simple, yet I have heard at least 13 > vari

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Alexander Tsyplakov
Aniko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 8t7bpp$iju$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8t7bpp$iju$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >> > >> I need help breaking "kalma" into three syllables?-) > >> > > > >The first one is silent. > > I don't understand your problem. The accent is on the _third_ syllable, > that is

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from Alexander Tsyplakov - > Have any of you ever actually heard Dr. Kolmogorov or his parents pronounce > his name? If not, then you cannot really be sure of the proper way to > pronounce it. My name is fairly simple, yet I have heard at least 13 > variations on it

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Jerry Dallal
Aniko wrote: > It is usual to put the stress > mark ' in front of the accented syllable. and Rich has documented that, if not usual, it is not unusual. All of my dictionaries put the stress mark after the accented syllable. I suspect this is the way it was always done until recently. Rich cites

[S] 2001 Chambers Software Award: CORRECTION

2000-10-26 Thread Local-Remailer
An earlier version of this notice contained a small but significant error in the eligibility criteria. The award is open to researchers who are either currently students or who are within three years of their last degree. The revised announcement below is correct. My apologies for the confusion

2001 Chambers Software Award: CORRECTION

2000-10-26 Thread Lionel Galway
An earlier version of this notice contained a small but significant error in the eligibility criteria. The award is open to researchers who are either currently students or who are within three years of their last degree. The revised announcement below is correct. My apologies for the confusion

Winsorisation: who was Winsor ?

2000-10-26 Thread Damion Milne
I would like to add some biographical information on Winsor to my slides on the winsorisation technique, which deals with outliers in a distribution. Winsorisation is described in Afifi and Azen 1979, by Academic Press Please send me some info on Winsor the man. Thanks -- Damion Milne

shareware/cheapware for survival analysis

2000-10-26 Thread ELANMEL
I need some free/cheap software for data analysis with a very large data sets (~500,000 observations). I need to be able to merge two such large files. I will be using correlations, regression and survival analysis. If possible I may also play with some neural networks. Any advice where I ca

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Paul Gorodyansky
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petr Kuzmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > In contrast, most folks probably remember a name that had been in the > daily news a decade or so ago: GorbachEv pronounced "G[a]rba_chov_" in > Russian. Even NPR, CBS, NBC, CNN, etc., announcers were always > pr

Re: Statistics of re-use of data

2000-10-26 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:20:21 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten D. de Jong) wrote: > Can anyone point me to a good article or book on the statistics of reusing > (independent) data? I am working on a problem where the position and < snip, detail > Generally speaking, losing independence by

fast calculation of normal distribution ...

2000-10-26 Thread Gökhan
Hi! I wonder how the public is evaluating the normal distribution function in realworld applications. I am implementing some methods where i have to calculate different times probability functions relying on normal distribution functions with steadily changing covariance matrix and mean values.

Re: fast calculation of normal distribution ...

2000-10-26 Thread Elliot Cramer
G?khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hi! : I wonder how the public is evaluating the normal distribution function I presume that you want the density of a multivar normal distrib. You don't calculate the inverse; you just need the quadratic form. I think that Searle's matrix algebra book gives

Stat pkg for old Mac

2000-10-26 Thread David J Firth
Following my policy of reuse and recycle, I'm using an old Mac Powerbook 160 under system 7.1. I have an MBA-level ststs and data analysis class coming up in January. Anyone aware of a nice program that'll run on my old portable? Thanks. -- -- Dave Firth Mac Powerbo

Re: Stat pkg for old Mac

2000-10-26 Thread James R Jetton
Stata (www.stata.com) works quite well on older 68k systems. I have used it on my old Powerbook 145. James Jetton [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Following my policy of reuse and recycle, I'm using an old Mac Powerbook >160 under system 7.1. I have an MBA-level ststs and data analysis class >coming up in J

Re: How to pronounce Kolmogorov

2000-10-26 Thread Petr Kuzmic
Paul Gorodyansky wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Petr Kuzmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > is accent on it. Compare with Mr. Mendel_e_ev (the periodic man), whose > > name is pronounced with "...ev" because the accent is on the > > pen-ultimate syllable. > > No, because th

Re: fast calculation of normal distribution ...

2000-10-26 Thread Alan Miller
Gökhan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >Hi! >I wonder how the public is evaluating the normal distribution function >in realworld applications. I am implementing some methods where i have >to calculate different times probability functions relying on normal >distribution functions with