We have a luddite but, a brilliant luddite for a professor so, we learned by
hand.  For Epidemiology class we have a basic, free program put out by the
CDC called EPI 2000.  Unforturnately, the professor who was to teach us
about the program (Information and data management) wasn't very good.


beth t. the OT

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Kathy Salkin
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: another shooting


Ah but you're talking about a 95% confidence level.  ;-)

My stats grad school prof used to say only fools have a 100% confidence
level
in their statistics and unfortunately the field is full of fools.  God, I
miss
taking classes under that man.  He made stats and advanced stats so much
fun!
I actually grew to love factor analysis and multivariate stepwise linear
regression because of him.

What prog do you use? BMDP?

Kat

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:50:36 -0500 "Elizabeth H. Thiers"
<[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> But you have a 5% chance of being wrong.  I'm
> gearing up for my comps this
> Friday, and of course one of the questions will
> be on Biostatistics.
>
> beth >t
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Kathy Salkin
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: another shooting
>
>
> LOL I'm falling out of my chair, laughing...
> Yes, my grad school stats prof
> used to do the same thing to us, pointing out
> inane cause and effects
> supposedly bolstered by high correlation
> coefficients.  You're right of
> course, numbers can be manipulated to prove any
> point you wish.
>
> Kat
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:09:26 -0500 "Cleveland,
> Kyle E."
>  wrote:
>
> > Ah, Joy,  I'm sure you've been through Stats
> > 101 at GWU already.  One can
> > back up virtually any claim, using
> > "statistics".  Here's an argument for
> > you, compliments of me dear Mother-In-Law:
>