Re: Rotten statistics

Posted by Richard Ristow on Feb 23, 2007; 8:51pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Rotten-statistics-tp1074053p1074058.html

At 09:59 AM 2/23/2007, Hector Maletta wrote:

>         Perhaps, as some list member pointed
> out privately to me, this is
>not an SPSS issue, but I thought that the
>audience of this list includes
>many people who are not professional
>statisticians or seasoned analysts, and
>may be likely to fall into the same kind of
>error if they are not careful.

Weighing in, in strong agreement with Mark
Davenport (10:34 AM 2/23/2007),

By general consent, and long-standing practice,
questions about statistical methodology are
welcome and useful here, whether the methodology
is specific to SPSS or not. Where would we be
without Marta García-Granero? And her
contributions are heavily to methodology.

See, for example, current thread "Interaction
terms in regression" (begun by Maria Sapouna at
02:50 AM 2/22/2007) is really methodology, though
I see I mention actual SPSS syntax in responding. ;-)