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[cheekbones3]

After just finishing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and inspired by a comment from random_redhead, for a change I'm going to record all the books I read this year. Might even encourage others to race me or something - I need to read more. I always say that, but there's so much out there and my mind is more fertile than normal right now!

EDIT; Books completed so far:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig 2"
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson 3.5"
Tutankhamun The Exodus Conspiracy - Andrew Collins and Chris Ogilvie-Herald 2.5"
One Hit Wonderland - Tony Hawks 1.5"
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry 1.25"
The Liar - Stephen Fry 1.5"
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 2"
Eric - Terry Pratchett 0.75"
Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett 1"
Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett 1.5"
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss 0.75"
Making History - Stephen Fry 1.5"

Total 19.75" (12/7/05)

Comments

[angelevie.livejournal.com]

Help please if you can - I just read you are a stats type person and I gotta do some stats and I am shit - never done em in my life and my masters has a shit load - anyway basically I got a big dataset with loads of variables (excel one) and I have to attempt to obtain a predictive relationship between the dependant variable and the other factors using MLR.
I don't really know what all that means let alone how to do it and basically I gotta do it this weekend so a few hints would be so gratefully recieved

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Okay I'll look into it tomorrow when I get back home! Have you got any statistical packages to use like SPSS or SAS, or are you stuck with Excel? MLR is dead easy in the other things, but I'm not so sure off the top of my head how good Excel's regression features are. Depends how big the dataset is too - might be able to get some ideas on paper, or just from looking at the data.

[angelevie.livejournal.com]

Thankyou - found a couple of websites that seem to help

At uni we use statistica but for some reason for this we have been told to use excel

Done some just hope my tutor thinks what I've done is ok.
When signing up for MSc in Analytical chem I did not realise I would have to do soem much stats - especially as I have done none in the past (did not even do maths at A level - I think they should make all scientists do it!)and work computers are so shit.

Thanks again - you are a darling x

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Well it seems to be the easiest way to do this sort of thing would be by using matrices, but that's not really an Excel method. How have you done it?