Re: Thanks for information about British pubs ("frivolous non-stat

Article View: bit.listserv.stat-l

Article #1214

Back to bit.listserv.stat-l Previous Next

#1214

From: Simon Dunkley
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 15:53

26 lines
2334 bytes

Rich Thompson writes:
>
> re: Steve Blinkhorn's msg.
> While Steve is aghast at the lack of rigour in our zymurgy related research
> his recommended strategy contains a glaring hole.  Single malt is a term
> frequently associated with scotch, not beer.  Beer usually contains a mix
> of several malted barleys.  Is Steve advocating that we measure scotch and
> beer as a single variable?  While I realize it is extrememly popular for
> researchers in this area to mix the two, such a design will surely provide
> blurry results at best.  I think it is obvious that far more variance will be
> accounted for by measuring these as the two distinctly separate variables that
> they are.
>
    Actually, this gets less and less frivolous: I now have the metaphor I
have been looking for, when trying to steer people away from multivariate
analyses unless they really know what they are doing...

    Simon, on a slightly sober note...

      00 0 O o o...
     0    ____  _________________ _________________ _________________
    ][_n_i|( |_ | Simon Dunkley | |    sdd@le     | |  sdd@le.ac.uk |
   (  _   | | | | Department of | | University of | |      +44      |
   _||_|__|_|_|_|__Psychiatry___|_|___Leicester___|_|__533__523259__|
     0--0--0       o    o    o       o    o    o       o    o    o
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

Technical Details

Message-ID: <18490.9306291553@irix.le.ac.uk>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!LEICESTER.AC.UK!SDD

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f5efb,f631547f47368d25
X-Google-Attributes: gidf5efb,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-06-29 09:02:59 PST
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!LEICESTER.AC.UK!SDD
Return-Path: <@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU,@VTBIT.BITNET:owner-stat-l@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Via: uk.ac.leicester; Tue, 29 Jun 1993 16:54:31 +0100
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0 (LUT)]
Message-ID: <18490.9306291553@irix.le.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Jun 1993 16:53:57 BST
Sender:       Stat-l Discussion List <STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET>
From:         Simon Dunkley <sdd@LEICESTER.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Thanks for information about British pubs ("frivolous non-stat
In-Reply-To:  <16673.9306291549@irix.le.ac.uk>; from "RICHARD C. THOMPSON,
              PH.D." at Jun 29, 93 9:41 am
Lines: 26