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Re: st: RE: Measures of association for a small sample
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Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Measures of association for a small sample
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Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:17:19 -0500
or permutation tests.
Robert
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Robert A Yaffee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Francisco,
> You are skating on thin statistical ice. But with such a small sample size
> you have what Damodar Gujarati calls the problem of micro-numerosity,
> which his what others call finite samples, which are
> not in general conformity with the laws of large numbers. This is
> territory where asymptotics are not going to be of much help
> in attaining a population estimate. You might want to do a power
> analysis to get an idea of your probability of failing to detect
> a significance of a medium effect size.
>
> You could consider bootstrapping or permutation tests if you were
> sure that your data were representative.
> Regards,
> Robert
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Lachenbruch, Peter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you have the entire population, why do you need significance tests? Isn't the measure sufficient?
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francisco Rowe [[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:35 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: st: Measures of association for a small sample
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for taking advantage of statalist for this -I am trying to measure the association between two variables with a reduced number of observations (13) which constitutes my entire population.
>>
>> I have utilised pairwise correlation coefficients (pwcorr) and regression using an Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) estimation (rreg) (on cross-sectional data). However, given some of the assumptions of these measures, the results can be questioned. For this reason, I would like to implement some additional tests or measures on my data.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have some guidance on this?
>> Are regressions based on IRLS useful in this context?
>> Which non-parametric measure can it be useful?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Francisco.
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