On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:53:51 -0800, Karl Louis Wuensch wrote:
On my stats exam there appears, in the upper right of the first page, "Student's Name _____." Two of my students wrote in there "William S. Gosset." Should I give them extra credit? A pint of stout?
I'd have been more impressed if the student wrote "Bernard Lewis Welch". By the way, when I teach the Student/Gosset t-test, I tell the old Guinness story and point out that if one has homogeneous variances, one should celebrate by having a Guinness stout. However, if one has heterogeneous variances, there's more work to do with Welch's correction and they should drink grape juice instead of stout. Sometime the mnemonic works. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=50062 or send a blank email to leave-50062-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
