stats
printed and binded book 2 today, an extra 400 pages of stats. it's amazing that i can go through it and actually understand most of it, and know where things are, where to find what, and go back and forth between my two books and find exactly the information i am looking for in a second. i love that i can take note on the paper, put marks here and there, and underline, circle, scribble, think on paper... i'm old fashion, i know, i just can't get used to seeing all those numbers on my computer only and make sense of them. for example, i'm looking at different variables and if they significantly influence the students' answers. i can go through my book and put a little yellow sticker on the pages where language makes a difference, and a red sticker where age makes a difference. then when i'll write it all up, i can just go and find things in seconds!
spent 3 hours in the stats consulting office with my consultant this afternoon, talking about different things we can do, how i can analyze stuff, what all those numbers mean. i'm ashamed to say that i wasn't sure if we should use a scheffe or tukey or fisher because of the multiple comparisons we're doing with the ANOVAS. i ended up using fisher because it can only look at the statistically significant stuff and i didn't want to look at the unsignificant stuff in the first place. tukey had some problems with the sizes of the groups, and scheffe was too conservative (although it was nice because it does use unequal groups). ok, i need to get back to my stats book before i actually finish my chapter three, to explain all this with details that will make sense.
other than that, the classes i teach will not be too much work until the last few days, since we have conferences and student presentations. but then, final papers will be turned in, and then, ohhhhh.... ouch! yesterday i bought a plane ticket to go to washington dc between christmas and new years, which means that i'll spend christmas here alone... not fun... and my plane leaves from washington on the first of january at 8:30 in the morning, haha! nice way to start the new year :)
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posted by Lucie @ 11:03 PM
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Hi Lucie! Great blog...A former student of mine told me about this blog and I found it (more about this in the email I'll send you in a few minutes). It sounds like your dissertation is moving along, some job interviews underway...that's really great. I miss graduate school days, especially the final year or two when I could just focus on "my" thing--dissertation, teaching, job search, etc.--24 hours a day. Anyway, good luck!!!
hi aya, thanks for the visit. yes, i feel the same about being able to do "my" thing and not worry about classes or papers or exams anymore. and next semester i'll only teach one (very small) class (002, if you remember what it is) so it'll mostly be 98% dissertation and nothing else :) i want to graduate, but at the same time, i know that this is the best time of my life.
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