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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:42:26 ITA
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- From: FACCIOLI@ITOCSIVM.BITNET
- Subject: Bootstrap
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- A user of my Computer Laboratory (an anthropologist
- who has 1500 skeletons in his cupboard) is studying a
- sample of 30 skeletons belonging to pre-dynastic
- egyptians. He is trying to draw inferences about
- sexual differentiations having 14 female and 16
- males skeletons. He poses two questions:
- a) Is there any package (or software) which draws equiprobabilistic
- ellipses?
- b) the female sub-sample has a basic problem: one of
- the female is very tall and another very short......
- Bootstrapping on the measures he obtains results even
- more disappointing than just using the sample in
- itself.
-
- I don't know if I stated the problem clearly enough
- but I willingly will provide more information (asking
- the professor involved) if you need it in order to
- help me
-
- Gianna Faccioli
-