Wednesday, February 28, 2007
JV getting hard
I worked on the homework for tomorrow tonight and read chapter 5 in JV and had a hard time understanding it. I understood their syntax for the most part and the general concepts but when they started to go into a lot of formulas, I was lost. However I think that I understood the gist of what it was trying to teach although I am not sure I would use these techniques to actually process my own data.
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Hey Theryn,
I'm with you there. I think the JV book is more practical in that it gives you code that you can use in analyses. But I find G&E much easier to understand and comprehend - if I had to figure out the theory behind the stats just from JV, I'd be lost.
I'd love to hear more about some of the research you've done - maybe you could do a post w/ some highlights?
Cheers,
Nicole
IMHO, both this chapter (JV #5) and the next (JV #6) don't give you a whole lot of things that will likely get much use in your 'toolkit' of statistical techniques.
what he does do here, though, is give you a bit more analytical demonstration of the theoretical stuff that G&E presented earlier on (i think it was their ch. 2).
and he introduces you to a handful of new commands.
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