Re: Digest Number 253

From: Hiram Gonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:32:51 -0000

You wouldn't use a t-test in this case. Cluster Analysis or some sort
of classification stat would be more appropriate.

-Ozzy

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Joya Beebe" <joyab_at_f.
..> wrote:
> HEY! Lenny! Why aren't Bob and I on your political list? And Joy
isn't
> in the LL quadrant, she's in the RL quadrant (or LR, whatever).
>
> Now take a statistics class, and do a t-test (since it's a small
sample
> size) to calculate for standard deviation, and you can find out
which of
> us group together as more or less the same, and which are unusually
one
> way or the other.
>
> My statistic books are either in storage or given away, or I'd be
> tempted to do this myself ... Barby?
>
> - Joya
>
> P.s.to Lenny - Bob's father's scores - I guess I can tell you this -
> were -2.50 and -3.13. He then went on an interesting but sorta
beyond
> my frame of knowledge discussion about how the test ranked Pinochet
-
> that, based on many business travels to Chile, although he
definitely
> thought Pinochet was a "brutal authoritarian", he thought he was not
> exactly a "free marketer", etc. This last bit will probably only
> interest you, since you know how intellectual Ray's conversations
run -
> scads of info on politics and history and business and engineering,
a
> little easier to keep up with now that I can't have wine with
dinner!
Received on 2003-07-28 11:32:57