We have a lot of members, but not a lot of activity I will try to drum up some interest on dailyKos. I'd like to use our expertise to help other diarists. ...
... I had this group on browse because I was worried about volume! As it's so quiet, I'll switch to email notification so I get these messages more promptly....
In Flu Stories: H5N1 And The Potential Threat Of Pandemic Flu <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/22/8586/6287> , plf515 commented on this graph from the UN...
[apologies if this appears twice; I originally posted it by email, which should work, but doesn't appear to have done this time-- Del C] As I was reading...
Outliers would be an excellent topic for a diary! I get so fed up of people either dismissing data points as "outliers" when they are merely at the ends of a...
Elizabeth Liddle
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Feb 8, 2007 9:16 am
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... These are very good questions, indeed. First, no, outliers are not just the most extreme 3 points. Second, there are measures of 'outlying', but the...
... Yes!! A huge amount of the misunderstanding about the exit poll story seems to me to stem from a misunderstanding of the whole idea of outliers, and how ...
Elizabeth Liddle
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Feb 8, 2007 11:25 am
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My account on Daily Kos seems to be gone this morning. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas. I don’t think that I could have been banned. I get a bit...
Stupid question: Are you sure that the cookies that track your login didn't just expire? In other words, when you open the main page, do you see an unlogged-in...
Daniel Silevitch
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Feb 8, 2007 2:20 pm
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Hi guys We're relaunching the Energize America process, as there is a very real opportunity to actually influence legislation. ...
... Thanks. Having done some googling on the search term "calculating outliers", I see that it is common to call observations, that lie more than 3 times the...
Well, there are rules of thumb, but of course the real reason for looking at outliers is because they may not belong to the rest of the population for some...
Elizabeth Liddle
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Feb 8, 2007 4:33 pm
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The mention of John W. Tukey ( I assume this is the famous one.) sent me off into a reverie about my early days in the field of statistical signal processing....
Just one other thought about outliers -- they intersect with influential observations (which aren't necessarily outliers). Outliers may indicate data quality...
My introductory statistics book contains the following instructions to make a modified Boxplot showing outliers. Calculate the Interquartile Range (IQR) as...
RE: What is an outlier? First, I should say that my background is in physical sciences, as opposed to social sciences - so I don't know if any of this will go...
Sometimes outliers are a judgment call. One should look first to the shape, center and spread of the distribution. And don't just focus on the most extreme...
Thanks... It took some doing but I finally got it figured out and fixed It was a cookie related issue, combined with a faulty memory of my user name. Ken ... ...
I'd like to volunteer to help out some on this as I am both a stats geek and an energy geek (and long-time reader of DailyKos, but not a contributor) I've...
So I was reading Peter's interesting diary on logistic regression <http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/13/95257/7754> , a little late, and I think I get it,...
Hi So, your model would be something like P(Kerry wins) = f(governor party + senators' parties) right? You might try making the independent variable go from 0...
Because I'm doing this as an exercise of how I would go about it with two completely different variables, I'll want to pretend that's the case even if I could...
Dear Stat Experts (with Valentines Day Affection): I have a project I am pulling together for our Colorado Outreach planning. Here is the gist of the stat_geek...
I can't help with the main part of this.....but yes, I very much like this sort of question here. It's EXACTLY why I started the group! BTW, there is, on...
Whenver you change models, you lose something and gain something.... If you go from 0-3 and include governors - the model is simpler, and, if it's mostly...
The American Statistical Association has called for a 're-do' in FL-13; I diaried about it http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/22/12164/0298, and would...
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