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Anderson-Darling Goodness of Fit test

Hi there I would like to know if anyone has a PDF copy of the Table of Anderson-Darling critical values at the 5% significance level for a Weibull Distribution Goodness of Fit Test? Here is my email...

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Fantasy Football: determining scarcity

I know that there are other fantasy football questions on the forum, and I have read them. Mine is a little bit different. I am looking for an equation to determine supply of a position to create a...

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Analyzing multiyear data

Hi all, I have a question regarding the use of correct outcome measure when we utilize multiyear data. Suppose I am assessing 'hospital use by uninsured in a state over 10 years'. I am not sure whether...

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composite index with PCA derived weights

composite index with PCA derived weights Seasons greetings ! I was trying to develop a composite index of vulnerability including 38 indicators. I am using weights obtained from Principal component...

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Covariance matrix singularity

Hello, Could anyone explain, why the matrix of covariance becomes singular when the the number of parameters P is less then the number of samples N? Thank you in advance, Elena

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Statistical Protection from a Hacker

Hi everybody! Suppose that a poker player is banned from a poker website due to his/her misbehaviour. This player creates a new account from a new computer in order to play again. Is there any possible...

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[GARCH model] Why do we need a "mean equation" ?

Hi, :) As i said in my first topic, I'm a beginner in financial statistics. I read a lot of things about GARCH, but I didn't find a precise response. :confused: According to this document (pages 4,...

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Pointers - Creating a model for predictions

I'm a student doing a project for a retail company that is trying to calculate their lost sales due to malfunctioning products. To do this we've done a survey among customers who had such products. The...

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actual prices and two predictions -> ANOVA or MANOVA?

Hello everybody, I'm unsure which stats to use for the following problem: I've got a list of prices for stocks of a certain date. In that list I also have two predictions for prices for the same date....

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Grouping similar competitors

Suppose we want to look at which airlines have similar pricing strategies. The data set looks like this: Variables: Flight Origination, Flight Destination, Airline1 Price, Airline2 Price, ....Airline10...

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Pearon's chi square // xtpoisson

Hi, I am using Poisson, fixed effects on stata and intend to adjust the standard errors because overdispersion using Pearson chi-square. In stata there is a command (estat gof) which provide this...

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Combined ANOVA

Hi everybody, My problem is as follows: I designed three plots of 250 m2 On each plots there is three plant species with 3 replicates by species (3*3= 9 plants). The species are not randomized trough...

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Testing Difference of Values from Lognormal Distribution?

I have data that fits a lognormal distribution really well. My primary goal is to create a statistical classifier using this distribution to apply to new data from the same source. Essentially, I have...

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Missing values problem

I trying to set up a count model Poisson for number of births of women. I have a datavariable giving age_of_respondent_at_first_birth. Some women havn't given birth and appear as missing on...

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Deriving at Normality Assumption

I have taken from this forum that a way to determine normality for a TTest, is that you can take the mean of one group in the strata and subtract it from the observations in the other group. Next test...

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Combining several estimates to obtain "best guess" with confidence limits

I have a number of estimates for mean wind speed which have been derived from a number of difference sources, each using a different methodology and data sets. Each estimate has a known standard error,...

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Failure Prediction Model - Intersecting Distributions?

Hi all, I'm not a statistician and worried that my question is to sophmoric, so I'm hoping for your patience. I have a use profile for a product measured in days. It turns out that most customers use...

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test a marketing effect

Suppose a company has retail stores in two regions, A & B and ran a marketing campaign in region B for 3 months. The average monthly store sales of last three months BEFORE the campaign of A is 5%...

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Root Mean Squared Error/Deviation in Simulation Studies....

hello members! :wave: i am having a little bit of trouble understanind what the Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) or Root Mean Squared Error Deviation (RMSD), which i know are two names for the same...

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different fiscal year end and fama macbeth regress

dear all, can i apply fama macbeth regression for a short time period 3-4 years? plus if the sample firms consist of firms with fiscal year end at december and firms with fiscal year end at june, can i...

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