I happened to look up Frank Harrell's book "Regression Modeling Strategies" on Amazon.com today. I was surprised to see that in addition to the typical links to related books they had sponsored links to sites about "How to become a model", "Try out for reality TV shows", ... There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the modeling that Frank describes.
Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:> I happened to look up Frank Harrell's book "Regression Modeling > Strategies" on Amazon.com today. I was surprised to see that in > addition to the typical links to related books they had sponsored > links to sites about "How to become a model", "Try out for reality TV > shows", ... > > There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the modeling that > Frank describes.I noticed the same thing with Carson, Cobelli, and Finkelstein's book on metabolic modeling. The "Similar items" categories can be fun too, especially the "Loosely related" group. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
On 21 Jul 2003 08:32:33 -0500 Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:> I happened to look up Frank Harrell's book "Regression Modeling > Strategies" on Amazon.com today. I was surprised to see that in > addition to the typical links to related books they had sponsored > links to sites about "How to become a model", "Try out for reality TV > shows", ... > > There seems to be some confusion about the nature of the modeling that > Frank describes.If Amazon is doing their job, they will link these also with 50/50 mixtures of bivariate normal distributions with equal variances and differences in means in only one coordinate. :-) --- Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat