[R] What are the common Standard Statistical methods used for the analysis of a dataset

Stephan Kolassa Stephan.Kolassa at gmx.de
Wed May 25 23:49:03 CEST 2011


Dear all,

may I suggest the acronym IOTT for the inter-ocular trauma test?

Now we just need someone to implement iot.test(). I assume it will 
appear on CRAN within the next 24 hours.

Looking forward to yet another base package,
Stephan



Am 25.05.2011 23:36, schrieb Greg Snow:
> How can anyone overlook the intra-ocular trauma test (or sometimes
> called the inter-ocular concussion test).  But the i-o trauma test
> needs either a small data set or an appropriate graph of the data (or
> can you look at a dataset of a hundred columns and a million rows and
> do an intra-ocular trauma test?).  We were not told the size of the
> dataset or enough information to know what type of graph to make.
>
> You do make a good point though that with minimal additional
> information the intra-ocular trauma test can be useful (well if it is
> significant, there are many datasets that fail the intra-ocular
> trauma test, but still yield interesting results after careful
> study).  And for any dataset that has a significant intra-ocular
> trauma test result, that should trump the results of
> SnowsCorrectlySizedButOtherwiseUselessTestOfAnything.
>



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