oh my...
I'd like to see the statistics on it before jumping to a conclusion that
the American preference is "chi-square" and the British preference is
"chi-squared". I don't see that at all.
--
In keeping with the pronunciation of x^2 and 3^2, maybe "chi-squared" makes
the most sense,.
The
What a delightful question. Bill Cochran discussed this in class
one day about 50 years ago. He said the British usage (which I think
he said was chi-squared,
as is consistent with the other memories in this thread)
is what he learned and previously used. But he had been in the US for
so long th
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, Jim Lemon wrote:
My suggestion is that while "chi-square" may be more correct in the
derivation of the statistic, "chi-squared" is more consistent with
colloquial usage in using the passive form.
Jim,
This is a cogent suggestion that's pragmatic and defensible.
Thank you
I have thought about this one myself, and just reading the posts and
links has afforded me a more informed viewpoint. My guess is that it
boils down to a contest between mathematics and prosody. To speakers
of English, "square" in the mathematical sense implies the active
form such as "I square th
I have the vague impression that "chi-squared" is more common in British
usage and "chi-square" more common in American usage. I'm pretty sure
that either is acceptable, although "chi-squared" sounds much better to
my ear.
Of course within a given document (or collection of related documen
Can you open in a text editor?
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 23:11, Phillip Heinrich wrote:
>
> In the Source window of RStudio (upper left) I save my code (File/Save) but
> can not reload it. There is a file labeled (RECode.R) but neither File/Open
> file or File/Recent Files gets me anywhere.
>
> A
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Mehdi Dadkhah wrote:
I am using Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) ...
My question is: How should I calculate geometric mean of experts’ opinions
...
I'm not a statistician, nor do I know anything about ISM. With that
disclosure I offer a couple of thoughts.
First,
Dear Martin,
Others struggle with this inconsistency as well; I found this discussion
useful:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1098138/chi-square-or-chi-squared
Denes
On 10/18/19 2:51 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
As it's Friday ..
and I also really want to clean up help files and si
As it's Friday ..
and I also really want to clean up help files and similar R documents,
both in R's own sources and in my new 'DPQ' CRAN package :
As a trained mathematician, I'm uneasy if a thing has
several easily confusable names, .. but as somewhat
humanistically educated person, I know that
Hi,
I hope you are doing well.
I am using Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and need to build a
“reachability matrix” to use it as the input for “ISM” package. In ISM
method, the opinion of some experts should be collected. For example,
attached image includes matrices which show opinions of
Thank you very much everyone. All fine now!!
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:42 AM Rolf Turner
wrote:
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> On 18/10/19 2:43 PM, ani jaya wrote:
>
> > Dear R-Help,
> >
> > I have a list of data frame that I import from excel file using read.xlsx
> > command.
> >
> > sheets <- openxlsx::getSheetNames(
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