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From:         Bob Hayden <hayden@OZ.PLYMOUTH.EDU>
Subject:      Thanks...

Me too.
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From: F.R.Jolliffe@GREENWICH.AC.UK (jf0zxt)
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Subject: quartiles
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:06:11 GMT
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Re quartiles -

There is an argument for finding the first quartile at position n/4+1/2,
the median at n/2+1/2 (the usual position) and the third quartile at
position 3n/4+1/2 in my paper:
The principle underlying quartiles - a guide for the teacher. Maths. in
School, Nov. 1991, 20, 5, 30-32.

The generalisation to other quantiles is obvious.

Members of the list might also be interested in the paper:
Freund, J.E. and Perles, B.M. (1987) A new look at quartiles of ungrouped
data. American Statistician, 41, 3, 200-203.

(Mrs) Flavia Jolliffe
School of Maths., Stats., and Computing,
University of Greenwich,
London, SE18 6PF
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From:         Dennis Roberts <DMR@PSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Thanks!

I want to publically thank Tim Arnold and crew at North Carolina State
University for their efforts this year (before it is over) on the edstat-l
listserve network.  I have personally benefited greatly from their work, and
hope the next year will bring many other contributions AND contributors
along this airway.  I believe most of us take this resource for granted but,
we need to stop and realize just how valuable it is to our professional work
and psyche.
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Comments:     208 Cedar Bldg.
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From:         Dennis Roberts <DMR@PSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      meta analysis

Without taking a stand yea or nay, I wanted to mention that the current issue o
f Journal of Educational Statistics has its entire issue devoted to meta analys
is. (Winter, 1992, Vol 17, # 4). Those interested in this topic may wish to exa
mine this issue.
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From:         "Peter A. Lachenbruch" <IARSPAL@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject:      andy taylor's problem

I'm no expert in latin squares, but a general linear models approach might work
 here. You have 3 d.f. for treatment, 3 d.f. for rows, 3 d.f. for columns,
leaving 6 d.f. for error. You might create a covariate which is 1 if the in-
sect pest was present and 0 otherwise. This will use up 1 d.f. and will pick
out the effects you want. In general, the Tukey single d.f. for non-additivity
is sometimes suggested - it's found in most anova texts - I think Snedecor and
Cochran has it - but I don't know if many computer programs offer it (BMDP migh
t be a good place to start).
Good luck and Merry Christmas.
Tony Lachenbruch
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only a test
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From:         GILBERT KLAJMAN <KLAJMAN@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
Subject:      Thanks & kudos...

I join Roberts and Wolfle in thanking Tim Arnold for starting EDSTAT.  It
really is terrific to listen in on the talk--especially about the teaching of
statistics.  Best to all.

Gil Klajman, Sociology, Montclair State, Upper Montclair, NJ  07043
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From:         Gerard Van der Leun <van@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Commercials on Internet ?

In article <2b31f865.enduser@eti.com>, lbarone@eti.com (Lou Barone) wrote:
>
> Regarding the Tracy LaQuey Adison-Wesley $10.95 'advertisement' I just read,
> who will pay my connect costs? Tracy? Are we now all free to send blanket
> commercials on Internet? If so, then great! To what address do I send the
> first of our many upcoming advertisements?

usefulNet@publishers.clearing.house.com

>
> And I hope the Al Gore reference doesn't somehow imply that the politicians
> have access to us via the Internet. Is this what was meant by 'change'?

No. What was meant by "change" was "spare change"...if you have some you
can send it to the politician of your choice. Ross Perot was the one
that wanted to access you. But, being smart, he was going to use the
television.

> I joined Internet and a few lists to acquire information! I didn't join
> to make the phone company richer while I pay for junk mail!

 If you are here to actually acquire information, an investment in the
new Britannica might be more prudent and much cheaper. Information,
opinions, lists, infolets, factoids, opinions, one-liners... this is
not an "Information server". "This" is over a thousand committees of
correspondence, backyard chat, and more opinions than there are islands
in Indonesia. You want information -- 411.

> Does the appearance of advertisements and political references on Internet
> bother anyone else but me?

Not me. And it wasn't an "ad".
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Mr Guser @ CSUFresno writes:

>Dear Group Therapy:
>
>I'm in love with Lisa, but she's engaged.
>What do I do?
>
>Signed,
>Dejected.

First, I'm not sure how much help you'll get on such a topic by posting
it to HELP-NET/Info-Nets.  I would suggest, though, sending the following
batch file to a listserv, such as LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU, to find mailing
lists that you may be able to talk about your problem with:

//ListSrch JOB Echo=no
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD *
search love in lists
index list.8 node.8 title.62
search love in new-list
print
search love in intgroup
index #.6 subject.72

But as far as what help I can give you, I don't think I can give much.
You're really in a situation where you can't do much, and I see that you
realize that you're powerless, in you're posting your problem to this
mailing list.  You could be extra nice to her, in your attempt to show
there's a better alternative, but probably she'll see right through what
you're doing.  Showing too much (if any) affection could backfire.  As hard
as it may be to accept, you may have to go on with your life, and look
for someone else.  You'll have to let her make her own mistake. It's either
that, or pray for the best, and hope her fiance gets some terminal illness,
and succumbs to it, where you can jump in and promise you won't do the
same thing to her.
But in all seriousness, I hope we all will be able to find our own Lisa...

Your Help-Net Counselor
(please keep me informed)
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Date: 30 Dec 92 04:13:33 GMT
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From:         lhdsy1!HOVMB.HOU281.CHEVRON.COM!TKMARC@UUNET.UU.NET
Subject:      More books and films

 Gottfried Mayer-Kress writes:

>Re: Books and Films (Stop it !)

Try "Nasty Girl." A film about how contemporary Germany deals with its
Nazi past. Like Gottfried says, movies in color is the only thing that
has changed since "those days."

--Kamil Marcinka (Internet address: tkmarc@hovmb.ion.chevron.com)
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From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
Subject: Re: Congratulation to a newborn!
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:15:14 GMT

In article <01GT01LMV9B60000T6@RCKHRST1.BITNET> GEORGE BAUER <BAUER@RCKHRST1.BITNET> writes:

>I wonder what the PEOPLE in Slovakia are thinking on their Independence day.
>
>And I wonder even more what they will be thinking a year from today.

Good question, Dr. Bauer!  I would have mentioned it also in my
congratulatory message but I thought it was best to refrain from negative
thoughts.  In other word, I didn't want to be a party crusher. ;-)

If I had to make a New Year Day's prediction, I would predict that --
just as all other post-communist governments of Eastern Europe became
very quickly unpopular due to the difficulties they had to handle -- so
will the Meciar government be rather disliked a year from now.  Just
mark my word on that.

Happy New Year!
Joe Pannon
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From:         lhdsy1!HOVMB.HOU281.CHEVRON.COM!TKMARC@UUNET.UU.NET
Subject:      Re: Books and Films Suggestions

Adding to Hugh Agnew's selections:

Books: Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most interesting Czech writers, and
some of his books are available in English. I read parts of Paul Wilson's
translation of his "I served the King of England" and it was very good.
I think "Too loud a solitude" also came out in English.
I doubt Jakub Deml has has been translated; he's a remarkable persona,
very unusual stuff, somewhat mystical (he was a Catholic priest).
Vladimir Paral is rather famous; I have read most of his stuff
but "Lovers and murderers" is the best (I don't think it's been
translated). And then Capek, of course. "The War with the Newts" is
available in English. I like everything he's written.

Of the contemporary Slovak writers I like Dusan Mitana.
I absolutely loved a book called
"Rivers of Babylon" by Peter Pis't'anek (the title is in English, the
book is in Slovak); came out in 1990 or 1991.


Films: Just about any by Forman: Loves of one Blonde, Black Peter, etc;
Ivo Passer's films (I don't recall any titles). Ve'ra Chytilova is
quite famous, although I never developed taste for her films. Then there
is a handful of great films about the medieval ages; I don't recall
the names, perhaps someone else can remember. Menzel's "My little
Village" (Dedinka ma strediskova) is a mildly pale but recognizable
portrayal of the eighties.

Of the Slovak directors,
Jakubisko is the most famous; "Same age as Christ" ("Kristove roky")
comes to mind. The film "Shops Downtown" (Obchody na Korze) is a must.

--Kamil Marcinka (Internet address: tkmarc@hovmb.ion.chevron.com)
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Subject:      Re: updated Eastern European List

Dear colleague Pasek:
your list of lists and e-mail sources of information, received today, is a
 wonderful Christmaspresent ! Thanks.
Best wishes of the Season - good health, happiness, success, prosperity and
all that.
Jiri Nehnevajsa
Professor of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh
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From:         GEORGE BAUER <BAUER@RCKHRST1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Congratulation to a newborn!

I wonder what the PEOPLE in Slovakia are thinking on their Independence day.

And I wonder even more what they will be thinking a year from today.

I still regret the people never had the opportunity to state their wishes
in the matter,regardless of how the referendum would have turned out.

I will watch the events of the next year with great interest.


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From: lexa@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (lexa matej)
Subject: Re: Press control
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:59:38 GMT

George Frajkor <gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA> writes:

>Liz writes:
>>
>> Does anyone on this discussion have knowledge/thoughts about how the
>> new political entity of Slovakia will affect higher educaition there?
>> Thanks.  Liz Hawthorne

>     In theory, none.    If there is enough money, it might even be
>better as the Slovaks will now open universities and courses on their
>own that were otherwise only available in the Czech lands.

	I wish I had your optimistic views. Do you really think that
a nation counting 5 million can open universities and teach courses in
just everything ? I mean, do you think we can afford it ? If there were
courses offered in Czech lands only, couldn't it also mean that the demand
for that type of course had been to low to let them open two of them, one
in each republic ?

Does anybody know equivalent of Slovakia for Czech lands (other than Bohe-
mia) ? What should I write on a letter in future ?

Does anybody 
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Subject:      Re: Szelepczenyi - ambassador

Thanks, Jan, for your response to my message.  Hope, you have a nice
Christmas.  Best wishes for 1993.  Igor Nabelek
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:06:16 CST
From:         Raju Dandu <NU172523@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Congratulations SLOVAKIA

Dear Friends:
(Mili Priatelia):
                 I wish all the best to the people and friends of
SLOVAKIA on the eve of independent Slovakia.

( Prajem vsetko najlepsie pri prilezitosti vzniku SLOVENSKO pre
obcanov and priatelov Slovenska. )
                           *******

Sometimes being an independent Slovak
  means more than just smiles and good times.
It means caring for each other and building
  bridges of trust.
It means not being afraid to face
  difficult times.
It means accepting one another
  for what we are...
It means pulling together when
  things get rough,
knowing that SLOVAKIA will be there no matter what.

     Hej janosikovci sme za vami.

                                 Raju Dandu
                                 Fargo, North Dakota.
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From:         Jan Szelepcsenyi <janszel@POSEN.MFF.UNIBA.CS>
Subject:      Re: Re:Press control

On Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:21:18 EDT, "Liz" <FAC2227@uoft01.bitnet> wrote:

> Does anyone on this discussion have knowledge/thoughts about how the
> new political entity of Slovakia will affect higher educaition there?
> Thanks.  Liz Hawthorne

Sorry, I couldn't catch the point of your question. Would you,
please, say, if you are interested in the economy and business
administration of higher education ? Because in accordance with
the present law the government doesn't have any possibility to
"regulate" the area of higher education as by controlling how
the university management is dealing with the state subsidies.

Jan
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From: KUBASKA@UAKOM.CS
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Mr. Marcinka writes (stuff deleted):

> The purpose of the lustration law is not to
> punish anyone--it is to prevent the whole class of people from access
> to political power for 5 years (I think).

  You are wrong. Everyone in the higher post in the state industry
  had to be "lustrated" in recent times. Lot of good experts (together
  with bad ones) had to quit their jobs only because of that they were
  on some list of the state police.

  "To prevent the whole class of people from access to political power
  for 5 years" by the law- it is typical hypocratic communist
  solution. I think  that it is the right of the voters to decide who
  will come to political power and who will not.

  By the way I don't like  the term "class of people". Sounds like
  "working class". It is typical sign of communist regimes to divide
  the society in the classes.

  And to prevent whole class of people from anything - it is not
  possible acording to S. constitution because the bill of the basic
  human rights and freedoms is fully included.


> The class consists of those
> who worked with the communist secret police, and the high ranking
> communist party officials. The assumption is that such people showed
> certain qualities (or lack thereof) that allowing these people into
> positions of political power would present an element of danger to
> the newly formed democracy.

  I would make distinction within the people who worked with the
  communist state police.
  Anybody in the state police who commited crime ought to be judged.
  If somebody simply work against CIA, for instance, then I see no
  reason why he should be restricted in his life.
  The punishment of some people ( because in result it is punishment,
  regardless of it's motivation) has to be done on the base of the
  proofs not assumptions.

  I agree with you that allowing these people into policy is danger
  for democracy. But it is just the same as with anybody else you
  don't know.

   Majority of slovaks decided to let the elections to judge the
   moral profiles of the candidates. Majority of czechs let it on
   the parliament commision.

   respectfully,



> --Kamil Marcinka (Internet address: tkmarc@hovmb.ion.chevron.com)
Marian Kubaska
Banska Bystrica
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
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From:         lhdsy1!HOVMB.HOU281.CHEVRON.COM!TKMARC@UUNET.UU.NET
Subject:      Sparty

A question to cigarette smokers in CSFR. In the seventies, Sparty
that were made in Bohemia were considered superior to the ones made
in Slovakia, and were in high demand. What's the situation now?

--Kamil Marcinka (Internet address: tkmarc@hovmb.ion.chevron.com)
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Reply-To:     Bill Diamond <billdi@diamond.win.net>
From:         Bill Diamond <billdi@DIAMOND.WIN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Congratulations SLOVAKIA

Jestli chtel jsem se ucit Slovensky, a studoval jsem Cesky za 15 roky -
jak muzu na lepsi delat?

Diki -
Bill
billdi@diamond.win.net
billdi@microsoft.com
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From: petras@scs.carleton.ca 
Subject: Duty on a private car import
Reply-To: petras@scs.carleton.ca
Organization: School of Computer Scince, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:11:02 GMT

Can anynody inform me what a duty will be on a car for a citizen of new Slovak republic
which was bought in North America and will be brougth to Slovakia. 
I will return home after a 2 years study. I've heard that if a person was send
abroad by some institution the duty is lower. Is it going to change ?
Any facts or pointers will be appreciated. I know that it is not easy to answer in 
recent situation of permanent changes.
Juraj Petras


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