HELP WITH A SIMPLE PROBLEM

Article View: bit.listserv.stat-l

Article #3616

Back to bit.listserv.stat-l Previous Next

#3616

From: Kyle Kane
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1992 08:25

20 lines
1520 bytes

Ladies, Gentlemen, and Statisticians,

        I have a user who want's to test the following; "Does the
presence of lawyer advertising effect the proportion of false claims
made concerning stress-related worker's comp in California?".  She
claims that only in LA county do lawyers advertise for mental-stress
cases.  If this is so, how would you test it.  It seems like a simple
question to me, but the only thing that came to mind was to weight the
samples by population and then do a cross-tabs/chi-square.
Unfortunately, this is her master's thesis and her advisor is unlikely
to accept something so simple.  If there are any suggestions out
there, I would appreciate them.  And please, I've always believed that
just because it's simple doesn't mean it's not good enough.


Grateful in advance

Kyle Stephens

KYLE@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU

Technical Details

Message-ID: <01GF0K0KSYGG8WW13X@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU!KYLE

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f5efb,7f89c19c05688bcb,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidf5efb,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-07 00:33:48 PST
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU!KYLE
X-Envelope-to: STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET
X-VMS-To: IN%"STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET"
Message-ID: <01GF0K0KSYGG8WW13X@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.stat-l
Date:         Tue, 7 Jan 1992 00:25:00 PST
Sender:       "STATISTICAL CONSULTING" <STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET>
From:         Kyle Kane <KYLE@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Subject:      HELP WITH A SIMPLE PROBLEM