User talk:Fadethree
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I just did my first major edit to an article, Margin of error.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
- I appreciate seeing yet another contributor to the statistics articles. Several comments: Look at my editing of the TeX. "Displayed" TeX is indented. One can write A1 rather than A1 in html, and A1 rather than A1 in TeX. It does not make sense to move the article to Margin of Error with a capital E; I moved it back. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style; words in article titles are not capitalized without some special reason to do so. Michael Hardy 00:16, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Near the end of the section on comparing percentages we see this:
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- = normdist((A1 − B1),0,A2,1)
- This seems to be a dangling phrase, not part of any sentence; it needs to be clarified. I'm guessing it mean the cumulative distribution function of a specified normal distribution; it so, there are clearer ways of saying that. Michael Hardy 00:23, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Re: Margin of Error
You make some good points regarding usage of first person in articles, and these are probably things we should think about in general for Wikipedia. Certainly Wikipedia crosses many boundaries of traditional encyclopedias so maybe using more 'proof language' in math, stat, and related subjects would be fine, where we include things beyond traditional encyclopedia articles. As for tutorials, I'm really not sure, it just felt especially out of place in the article, probably because it gave such specific instructions to the reader as to what to do. Anyways thanks for looking at my suggestions. —siroχo 09:09, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
Regarding your picture idea, I think a graph made in Excel should be fine, aside from the fact that I'm not sure if poll data is copyrightable, and if so, when it is fair use. The graph itself is certainly yours to distribute as you will (Public Domain/GFDL, etc). —siroχo
- Regarding my comment on the FAC page. I appreciate the fine work you've done to get the article to this point. I appreciate your explanation, and I noticed you gave the alternate forms indirectly. I guess the pedant in me simply cringes at leading with an expression which is not fully qualified. Perhaps if in introducing the equation you could mention the 99% confidence interval (though I admit this could be ugly too). I would be happier if the equation was generalized with the proper variable in the numerator and a notation that "for 99% confidence, (numerator) is 1.27".
- Also, several references I've seen (an online one is the iSix Sigma site claim that a 95% confidence interval is more common, which matches with my experience also. This may be a more serious issue than the form of the equation. Jgm 13:19, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Margin of error blurb
Regarding the spelling of "per cent" – my dictionary says that "percent" is an American variant, with "per cent" accepted univeersally. I didn't want to alienate any version of English unnecessarily. —Wereon 22:26, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] your margin of error graph
Would you please re-upload Image:MarginoferrorViz.jpg as a PNG or GIF? See Image talk:MarginoferrorViz.jpg. roozbeh 01:04, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Margin of error
I love your margin of error article, but I do believe that the term is in common use in most areas of statistics. [1] here is an example of a non-polling use of the term. Trollminator 15:47, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
