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# Forum: Statistics

Statistics course and homework discussion. Elementary statistics.

1. ### Sticky: Forum Guidelines: Smart posting behavior pays off

Welcome to talkstats.com, the place for statistics help. This is a guideline for people who want to ask a question on this forum and value a...

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07-16-2014, 11:01 AM
2. ### Sticky: We only provide homework help to those who show effort

Welcome to Talk Stats Forum. In order to keep homework help effective and efficient, we request all members to abide by these guidelines: 1)...

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1. ### Testing for moderated mediation

Hi everyone, I am using the Baron and Kenny approach to test for mediation. I would like to test for a moderation effect in path B. I know...

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2. ### Inter-Rater Reliability for Diagnostic and Continuous Measure

Hi All, I am hoping to compute the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of a diagnostic measure and a continuous screening measure. For the...

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Yesterday, 09:40 PM

Calculate the z-score to determine the probability that the stock price for Firm A will fall below a penny (i.e., $0.01). Firm A mean of 1.58 with a... • Replies: 5 • Views: 252 Yesterday, 09:00 AM 4. ### Negative Confidence Interval 3. In two wards for elderly women in a nursing home the following levels of hemoglobin were found: Ward A: 12.2, 11.1, 14.0, 11.3, 10.8, 12.5,... • Replies: 1 • Views: 85 Yesterday, 07:57 AM 5. ### Controlling for earlier data points in a mediation (with covariates) Hello :-) In my mediation analysis I have a personality trait as my X (independent variable), a behavior as M (mediator) and medical problems as Y... • Replies: 0 • Views: 75 Yesterday, 04:44 AM 6. ### How can I find out, if subscales are independent? I need to find out, if four subscales of a scale a independent from each other in my sample. A correlation with all four is a good start, so I did... • Replies: 13 • Views: 272 Yesterday, 03:38 AM 7. ### Challenging Statistical Significant In 18 patients with Everley's syndrome, the mean level of plasma phosphate was 1.7 mmol/l (millimoles per liter) with a standard deviation of 0.8... • Replies: 0 • Views: 72 Yesterday, 01:18 AM 8. ### Confidence Interval In 22 patients with an unusual liver disease, the plasma alkaline phosphatase had a mean value of 39 IU/l (International Units per liter), standard... • Replies: 0 • Views: 41 Yesterday, 01:12 AM 9. ### Mean Significance Statistical Test 3. In two wards for elderly women in a nursing home the following levels of hemoglobin were found: Ward A: 12.2, 11.1, 14.0, 11.3, 10.8, 12.5,... • Replies: 1 • Views: 91 04-16-2015, 06:41 PM 10. ### Research Question Statistical Method In a study by Lapidus et al., one of the research questions was whether the proportion of physicians who screened patients in the emergency... • Replies: 1 • Views: 104 04-16-2015, 06:40 PM 11. ### Two-sided test Hypothesis 2. In 18 patients with Everley's syndrome, the mean level of plasma phosphate was 1.7 mmol/l (millimoles per liter) with a standard deviation of 0.8... • Replies: 1 • Views: 99 04-16-2015, 06:40 PM 12. ### Confidence Interval In 22 patients with an unusual liver disease, the plasma alkaline phosphatase had a mean value of 39 IU/l (International Units per liter), standard... • Replies: 1 • Views: 121 04-16-2015, 06:39 PM 13. ### Control variates, Monte Carlo integration Exercise: Experiment with as many variance reduction techniques as you can think of to apply to the problem of evaluating P(N>2.5) where N~N(0,1). ... • Replies: 0 • Views: 63 04-16-2015, 03:57 PM 14. ### Finding MLE by factor analyzing the correlation matrix In the book "Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis" written by Johnson and Wichern, they have mentioned that the MLEs ($\hat{L_z}\$) are obtained...

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04-16-2015, 07:22 AM
15. ### Understanding the “computationally convenient uniqueness condition” of factor model

In the book "Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis" written by Johnson and Wichern, they have mentioned about a computationally convenient...

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04-16-2015, 07:02 AM
16. ### trick for making samples with and without replacement

hi, is there any smart way to make samples with and without replacement for large populations for e.g if population is 1,3,5,8,9,7,5. waiting for...

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04-16-2015, 12:29 AM
17. ### a book which introduce neural network?

Dear all, I am currently working on model specification for neural networks and so look for a book which introduces neural networks including...

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04-15-2015, 10:23 PM
18. ### Correlation conundrum

Hi there, New to this forum, sought it out because I am having real trouble understanding what is going on with this weird correlation I am...

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04-15-2015, 06:44 AM
19. ### Strange post hoc analysis results?

Dear Talkstats I have made a dataset where i have treated the same cells with two different drugs. I have stimulated them with different...

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04-15-2015, 02:21 AM
20. ### Forecasting Rates of Return

Hi, I have 10 years of monthly rates of return between 31/03/2005 and 31/03/2015 on an investment which I would like to use to forecast the twelve...

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04-14-2015, 02:30 PM
21. ### Strange regression results

Hello, I'm working on analyzing data from a two-alternative forced-choice task, where participants had to choose between two options and were more...

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04-14-2015, 10:03 AM
22. ### Comparing means of datasets

Dear all, I am doing research with plants, where we compare different treatments and want to know if there is statistical difference between...

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04-14-2015, 03:27 AM
23. ### Help with normality test using SPss

hi all, I have an assignment question that ask to provide a summary statistic for a categorical data(male/female) with a total respondent of 100...

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04-13-2015, 01:54 PM
24. ### What statistical analysis to use for a ordinal scale questionnaire?

Dear Experts, Im a noob when it comes to statistics. So please pardon my lack of knowledge in this post. I need to do a statistical analysis on...

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04-13-2015, 01:15 PM
25. ### Unpaired t-test and F-test

Hello!!! I would like some help with t-tests. I perform unpaired t-test and the programm performs also F-test for equal variances. My t-test...

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04-13-2015, 07:06 AM
26. ### One-way ANOVA and planned comparisons - HELP!

Hi all, I'm currently running a Psychology experiment: the effect of background music on memory and mood. I will be using SPSS to conduct two...

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04-13-2015, 05:32 AM
27. ### What test to do to compare means, not fo experimental data, but of real world data

I want to also understand if the test to compare means are meant to be carried out only for experimental data. What about real world data? I...

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04-13-2015, 03:06 AM
28. ### Variance testing

Hello everyone, I would like a little help to statistics. I have to compare three groups. I am using GraphPad Prism Programm. I had applied...

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04-12-2015, 02:32 PM
29. ### When do I use chi square and when a t-test? I just don't get the difference...

Hi there, I'm trying to teach myself statistics from a book but I don't understand when I have to use t test and when chi squares. I tried to look...

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04-12-2015, 02:24 PM

Hi, I'm doing a study on shark movements via acoustic tracking. The data I get whenever a shark is detected is its ID, time (hh), depth (m, e.g....

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04-12-2015, 02:14 PM
31. ### homogeneity slopes

I'm doing some analysis of ANCOVA, but do not know if I'm not knowing interpret the results. I understand that an ANCOVA would be an ANOVA with the...

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04-12-2015, 11:37 AM
32. ### p Value + Sample Size in Chi Squared Tests

Hi All, This is my first post and I'm hoping someone could help me with the following question: a) The obtained p value for a contingency table...

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04-11-2015, 08:37 PM
33. ### ANOVA past exam question help

Hi everyone, I'm looking over last years exam paper and one of the questions asks me to interpret an one-way independent ANOVA SPSS output and report...

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04-11-2015, 06:01 PM
34. ### 0.00000 significance value

Hi everyone, New to Talk Stats, so be nice! I have looked for an answer to my problem on previous posts but have not been able to find anything...

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04-11-2015, 07:56 AM
35. ### normal distribution probabilities

The lifetime of a certain brand of battery is normally distributed with a mean value of 10 hr and a standard deviation of 0.8 hr when it is used in a...

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04-11-2015, 02:01 AM
36. ### hypothesis test

I have a sample of 250 credit card applications. 29 of them or 11.6% were processing errors. The goal is that no more than 10% of them are processed...

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04-10-2015, 06:52 PM
37. ### Is there a difference between z-score and effect size?

I just started teaching statistics to myself (I never had it in school but will need it when I start University). I have problems with z-scores...

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04-10-2015, 05:39 PM
38. ### Number of parameters in my model?

This is probably a very basic question, so my apologies! I'm trying to make sure I have the correct number of parameters in my model so I insert the...

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04-10-2015, 03:38 AM
39. ### is my regression incorrect ?

Hi eberybody I made a multiple regression and when I applied my estimated coefficients to the data to predict the dependent variable values the...

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04-09-2015, 03:34 PM
40. ### Wins > 50% for everyone in a pool of players

Is it possible for every single player in a pool of players to end up with a > 50% win/loss ratio. Providing that the game being played can have...

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04-08-2015, 06:27 PM
41. ### Long HW question..Struggling so much with this question

2. Let X1, X2, . . . , Xn be independently and identically distributed geometric random variables, as in Written Assignment 2 and the Midterm...

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04-08-2015, 03:01 PM
42. ### How to show that b1 and SSE are independent?

under normal sampling zero covariance implies independence. So I tried to solve COV(b1,SSE). COV(b1,SSE) = E =... =E(b1*SSE)-beta1*sigma^2*(n-2)...

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04-08-2015, 08:07 AM
43. ### Original source for skewness formulas

The past few days I've dug into Skewness and was trying to find some original sources. The most common formula for skewness in textbooks is:...

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04-08-2015, 07:42 AM
44. ### Normal Distribution Curve and Standard Deviation

Hi. I've been asked to implement a traffic light system in the office to highlight employees who are requesting to much or too little medical...

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04-07-2015, 04:34 PM
45. ### Statistical trend presentation of sports time results

Hi, I am an electronics engineer and I have designed a sports timing system for alpine skiing particularly for training. Results are sent to an...

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04-07-2015, 02:27 PM
46. ### Sample Size- number of additional participants required!

Hello! im currently running an experiment and my supervisor has asked me to calculate the number of additional participants i need to recruit in...

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04-07-2015, 09:17 AM
47. ### Simple Question

Hi, I'm learning basic linear regression and I have a question about model building. I was told that if a model contains higher-order terms...

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04-06-2015, 09:42 PM
48. ### Two girls one bonferroni - adjustment according to which families?

Hey guys We are two girls in need of some statistical guidance in our bachelor project in medicine. As it is the easter holidays, our advisor is not...

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04-03-2015, 07:50 PM
49. ### Help with which test to use? Basic question

I have a big data set containing students, and each student has a grade for 3 different subjects (writing, reading, and mathematics), and I need to...

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04-03-2015, 05:46 PM
50. ### Inference, estimator of moments

If X_1,..,X_n is a random sample with density f(x;\theta)=e^{-(x-\theta)}e^{-e^{(x-\theta)}} x \in\mathbb{R} and -\infty<\theta<\infty i) Find the...

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04-03-2015, 03:54 PM
51. ### Customer Segmentation

Hi all, Just wondering what approaches you can take when analysing customer data where you cannot determine whether a customer is active or...

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04-03-2015, 03:54 PM
52. ### Bayes estimator 2

If X ~ Poisson(\theta) and \pi(\theta)~exp(1)(prior). Find the Bayes estimator for P_\theta(X=0) with respect to quadratic loss I calculated the...

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04-03-2015, 09:42 AM
53. ### Choosing the right level of measurement

Hi, I have kind of a specific question relating to levels of measurement. First of all, my task is to choose the right measure of association for...

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04-03-2015, 09:25 AM

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