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:
>