User talk:Bruguiea

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Question on Talk:The Economist

I have replied to your question on the above page, in case you are still interested. --Oldak Quill 20:12, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merging References into External Links

I had reservations about your recent edit to the Car battery article. Wikipedia:Citing sources states:

[edit] Dred Scott's death

You have removed a claim Dred Scott died of consumption, alleging it referred to AIDS. Why?

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Leandro GFC Dutra 15:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

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Tony 15:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Descry

Thanks for experimenting with the page User:Descry on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. JHMM13 (T | C) 23:00, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 80 members of parliament

Hi. Someone is trying to delete the article you created on "les 80". Could you please give your opinion here [2]. Merci beaucoup. -- JJay 15:06, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] False discovery rate

Hi Tony. Regarding your message on my user page, I'm afraid that it's a bit beyond my expertise, though I can make some general comments that might be helpful. I also find myself a bit too busy with work at present to do much wikification. I think the opening paragraph is good, but there should be more exposition in the sections that follow, explaining the context in more detail. There also seems to be some jargon about activation in the table there. Is that from signal processing? Finally, since the formula (\forall k \leq i) etc. is quite simple, I wondered if there might be some simple derivation or explanation for it. Cheers, Ben Cairns 09:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC).

[edit] TeX

Hello. Note that in TeX, you don't need to write \operatorname{min}; you can just write \min. This not only prevents italicization, but also affects spacing and the position of subscripts. Thus if you type \min_i x_i, you get this:

$\min_i x_i\,$

whereas with \operatorname{min}_i x_i, you get this:

$\operatorname{min}_i x_i\,$

Notice both the smaller space between "min" and "x_i in the second version, and also the difference between the positions of the subscript i in the two versions. Michael Hardy 02:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forshaw

As a heads up, I deleted your link to his number in the AfD. It's just not safe, I know you meant no harm and were just making a point. Happy editing! T e K E 02:38, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your nominations

Could you consider giving more reason then "nn" in your nominations. It takes time to create articles, and people are owed an explanation, as to why they should be deleted. There may be a perfectly valid reason why you think something is "non notable", but it should be stated. I feel this is an issue of showing respect for the time of others. --Rob 10:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Another way to show respect for the time of others would be not to nominate high schools. It is around a year since an article about a genuine high school was deleted, but in that time there have been hundreds of failed nominations, which between them have wasted a great deal of time. Nominating high schools serves no purpose except making a point and it creates ill feeling in the community, so please don't do it again. CalJW 10:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I know that the threshold for wikipedia is at high school and we delete anything below. This nomination is about something that is a mix of middle school, junior high and high and, in this case of a mix, I honestly thought it should be deleted. Sorry for not putting that in the nomination. Tony 15:42, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, that's not the threshold anymore. What you say was partly true in 2004. Please review Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive and Wikipedia:Watch/schoolwatch/Schools for deletion archive/2005. The standard for a year is to keep virtually all elementaries and middle schools. Most deleetions have been for copyright violations, attack content, or verifiability issues. But not "notability". Netivot Hatorah Day School and York Hill Elementary School were the last verifiable real elementary schools deleted on Wikipedida, back in August 2005 (they were the exception at that time). Things like preschools and unaccredited schools continue to be deleted of course. But not verifiable real elementaries and middle schools. -Rob 17:53, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE-The Vichy 80

Original message :

Hi,

I am a bit puzzled by your edit on The Vichy 80 article. Why did you remove the wiki to fr:Loi constitutionnelle du 10 juillet 1940? Although it's not exactly the same subject, it's fairly close. Actual, there was some Talk:The Vichy 80 to split the English article if enough material gets included, but in the meantime, isn't better to keep the cross wiki? Tony 14:08, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Réponse/Answer :

I can anderstand you idee. But i prefere that links are good. Maybe we could advise the reader that it isn't the same subject. However i don't speack english very well, so you can do as you want. --Pseudomoi 19:22, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] advertisement

"advertisement on wikipedia.....Why not make it optional, so that each user decides if he/she wants to see the advertisement"

It seems like it would be very easy to provide users with this choice in the Wikipedia user preferences, a check box that would say "support Wikipedia by turning on ads." An advertisement system such as that used at this website could be activated. --JWSchmidt 14:13, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shadowrun

Actually, there is an article called Shadowrun (Xbox 360) that has been in existance for some time. I saw your merge tag and thought I would tell you. Thunderbrand 03:03, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't play videogames so thank you for correcting my mistakes. Tony 03:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rosario Isasi

I'd wait a while. There needs to be enough time between the last AfD and the next one so that people don't complain that it was re-listed too quickly. Plus I'm still holding out hope that maybe somebody will produce a decent source that vouches for her notability although it looks like the two main supporters have given up at this point. — GT 20:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your sandbox

Please move it to a subpage. It is actually a regestered user. The Republican 02:14, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Huh? Tony 02:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eagles

You recently added a {verify} tag at the top of this article. Much of the content in the article is factual (band members, discography, etc), so I suspect you are questioning content in specific sections and/or paragraphs. It would be helpful to those of us who monitor that article if you could move the {verify} tag to the section you feel needs work, and/or add some specific comments to the article's talk page. -- Engineer Bob 17:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about the confusion. I posted the thing here. Tony 01:49, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:10, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About ESIEE

Bonjour Tony. J'ai essayé de modifier l'article sur l'ESIEE pour y faire figurer l'apprentissage qui débute en septembre : un formation d'ingénieurs réseaux en alternance. Mon niveau d'anglais étant ce qu'il est, si vous trouvez une meilleure traduction n'hésitez pas à l'y mettre à la place. En tant qu'élève de l'ESIEE, je peux vous certifier la validité de l'info. De plus elle est aussi disponible sur www.esiee.fr Boris SCHAPIRA (GroquiK-GK)

[edit] regarding your edits to the WP:AFD

please try and avoid accidental blankings of large pages--205.188.116.9 20:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

It's very messy and time consuming to cleanup, especially when other people don't notice it and go on adding things to the page, making a simple revert impossible--205.188.116.9 21:40, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, there was an edit conflict and things got messed up. Tony 15:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

It's fixed, I think, though someone may want to check over my work. BigDT 21:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hotelling T square distribution

I think you may have misread the first sentence of Hotelling's T-square distribution. It only says that the T-square distribution is used in multivariate hypothesis testing. Nowhere does it say that the distribution itself is multivariate. In fact, you just need to look at the definition of the $T 2$ test statistic to see that it is a scalar (essentially, a weighted inner product of two vectors). Also see the corresponding entry on MathWorld. Cheers, --MarkSweep (call me collect) 18:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. Sorry about the inconvenience. Tony 01:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Band plurals

I just saw your message at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#plural_with_music_bands, but as that was a few weeks ago, I'm replying here in case you aren't watching that page any more. American_and_British_English_differences#Singular_and_plural_for_nouns probably explains this better than I can, but British English uses are a band and American English uses is a band. Bands named the Somethings such as the Eagles, complicate matters. I always thought that the plural is used in these situations in Am Eng, but as a Br Eng speaker I may be wrong. Possibly both are acceptable. The general rule of thumb is to use is a band for American bands, are a band for British bands, and whichever was used first for bands from non-English speaking countries. Oldelpaso 10:59, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your MathCOTW nomination won!

Probability theory

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[edit] Online Tutoring

Thanks for removing the online tutoring providers link (several times) on this page. I started this page and took on the lofty task of trying to provide a useful summary. Later experience on Wikipedia informs me that this kind of link does not belong on this page. I'm happy to note that the page hasnt changed much content-wise besides this.

[edit] Your request for arbitration

As a Clerk of the Arbitration Committee, I noticed that in your request for arbitration concerning Online Tutoring, you did not indicated that you had notified the other parties of your request. You are required to provide a notification to each of the other parties and provide a link to it in the request. Please do this as soon as possible.

The arbitrators who have commented so far have suggested that this matter is not suitable for arbitration because earlier steps in dispute resolution have not been explored. You may want to consider withdrawing your arbitration request and trying to address the issue you are concerned about through other means. Newyorkbrad 13:42, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Because 4 arbitrators have rejected your case, I have speedily removed the case from request for arbitration page. You should try to use request for comments, third opinion, and/or request for mediation first. - Penwhale | ^{Blast him / Follow his steps} 07:43, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Although I have voted to decline, and your case seems unlikely to be accepted, I have restored your request for now, as I believe its removal was a bit premature. Regards Paul August ☎ 16:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sandbox

Let $X 1, X 2,..., X n$ denote a random sample from a distribution having the pdf $f (x;θ),γ < θ < δ$ . Let $Y 1 = u 1 (X 1, X 2,..., X n)$ be a statistics whose pdf is $g 1 (y 1;θ)$ . Then $Y 1 = u 1 (X 1, X 2,..., X n)$ is a sufficient statistics if and only if:

$f(x_1;\theta)f(x_2;\theta)...f(x_n;\theta)=g_1\left[u_1(X_1,X_2,...,X_n);\theta\right]H(x_1,x_2,...,x_n)$

[edit] Proof

Suppose that:

$f(x_1;\theta)f(x_2;\theta)...f(x_n;\theta)=g_1\left[u_1(X_1,X_2,...,X_n);\theta\right]H(x_1,x_2,...,x_n)$

We shall make the transformation $y 1 = u 1 (x 1, x 2,..., x n)$ , $y 2 = u 2 (x 1, x 2,..., x n)$ , ..., $y n = u n (x 1, x 2,..., x n)$ having inverse functions $x 1 = w 1 (y 1, y 2,..., y n)$ , $x 2 = w 2 (y 1, y 2,..., y n)$ , ... $x n = w n (y 1, y 2,..., y n)$ and Jacobian $J$ . Thus:

$f\left[ w_1(y_1,y_2,...,y_n); \theta\right]...f\left[ w_n(y_1,y_2,...,y_n); \theta\right] |J|=g_1(y_1;\theta)H\left[ w_1(y_1,y_2,...,y_n), ..., w_n(y_1,y_2,...,y_n)\right] |J|$

The left-hand member is the joint pdf $g (y 1, y 2,..., y n;θ)$ of $Y 1 = u 1 (X 1,..., X n),..., Y n = u n (X 1,..., X n)$ . In the right-hand member, $g (y 1,..., y n;θ)$ is the pdf of $Y 1$ , so that $H [w 1,..., w n] | J |$ is the quotient of $g (y 1,..., y n;θ)$ and $g 1 (y 1;θ)$ ; that is, it is the conditional pdf $h (y 2,..., y n | y 1;θ)$ of $Y 2,..., Y n$ given $Y 1 = y 1$ .

But $H (x 1, x 2,..., x n)$ , and thus $H\left[w_1(y_1,...,y_n), ..., w_n(y_1, ..., y_n))\right]$ , was given not to depend upon $θ$ . Since $θ$ was not introduced in the transformation and accordingly not in the Jacobian $J$ , it follows that $h (y 2,..., y n | y 1;θ)$ does not depend upon $θ$ and that $Y 1$ is a sufficient statistics for $θ$ .

The converse is proven by taking:

g (y 1,..., y n;θ) = g 1 (y 1;θ) h (y 2,..., y n | y 1)

where $h (y 2,..., y n | y 1)$ does not depend upon $θ$ . Now divide both members by the absolute value of the non-vanishing Jacobian $J$ , and replace $y 1,..., y n$ by the functions $u 1 (x 1,..., x n),..., u n (x 1,..., x n)$ in $x 1,..., x n$ . This yields

$\frac{g\left[ u_1(x_1, ..., x_n), ..., u_n(x_1, ..., x_n); \theta \right]}{|J*|}=g_1\left[u_1(x_1,...,x_n); \theta\right] \frac{h(u_2, ..., u_n | u_1)}{|J*|}$

where $J *$ is the Jacobian with $y 1,..., y n$ replaced by their value in terms $x 1,..., x n$ . The left-hand member is necessarily the joint pdf $f (x 1;θ)... f (x n;θ)$ of $X 1,..., X n$ . Since $h (y 2,..., y n | y 1)$ , and thus $h (u 2,..., u n | u 1)$ , does not depend upon $θ$ , then:

$H(x_1,...,x_2)=\frac{h(u_2,...,u_n|u_1)}{|J*|}$

is a function that does not depend upon $θ$ .

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