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All, I have an ActiveRecord object that I need to be able to uniquely identify _before_ I actually save the object (I may not end up saving the object based on conditions). This is because I want to use the ID in another context (a file name in the filesystem). Depending on conditions, I may or may not need to do a lot of stuff between the time that I generate the object ID and actually

Dear all, I need to understand a thing in the beheaviour of the two functions aov and anova in the following case involving an analysis of ANOVA with repeated measures: If I use the folowing command I don´t get any problem: >aov1 = aov(response ~ stimulus*condition + Error(subject/(stimulus*condition)), >data=scrd) > summary(aov1) Instead if I try to fit the same model for the

For time scale that are truly discrete Cox proposed the "exact partial likelihood". I call that the "exact" method and SAS calls it the "discrete" method. What we compute is precisely the same, however they use a clever algorithm which is faster. To make things even more confusing, Prentice introduced an "exact marginal likelihood" which is not