From: dpb on
bo wrote:
....

> You are absolutely correct.Actually when I showed my advisor this uselss
> higher order polynomial function, as I am also a novice to matlab,my
> advisor should stop me at first place rather than asking me to solve
> it.So I just follow whatever my advisor said to do.That is why my
> direction totally went wrong. Is there any recommendation website of
> regression modeling? Thanks

Unless he thought the exercise would lead to a recognition of a problem
that would be a learning experience I would have agree; if he was
serious in the recommendation one would hope it was simply a lack of due
consideration which would be disappointing at best but if is that
unfamiliar w/ the subject that would be a major failure it would seem...

Predating the web as a general place I can't say as where there is a
particularly useful site altho I'm sure there are probably several.

I've always been fond of Raymond H. Myers' book
_Response_Surface_Methodology_ as being relatively thorough but not
terribly advanced altho I'll admit much of that is from working w/ him
lo! so many years ago...

Another that is worthwhile is Box & Jenkins,
_Statistics_for_Experimenters_ for it's commonsense advice and
particularly a chapter or two on common pitfalls to avoid.

Both of these, of course, date me as the "old fogey" I have become; I'm
sure there are many much newer I've never seen that would be just as
suitable.

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From: bo on
dpb <none(a)non.net> wrote in message <hmp3ff$863$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>...
> bo wrote:
> ...
>
> > You are absolutely correct.Actually when I showed my advisor this uselss
> > higher order polynomial function, as I am also a novice to matlab,my
> > advisor should stop me at first place rather than asking me to solve
> > it.So I just follow whatever my advisor said to do.That is why my
> > direction totally went wrong. Is there any recommendation website of
> > regression modeling? Thanks
>
> Unless he thought the exercise would lead to a recognition of a problem
> that would be a learning experience I would have agree; if he was
> serious in the recommendation one would hope it was simply a lack of due
> consideration which would be disappointing at best but if is that
> unfamiliar w/ the subject that would be a major failure it would seem...
>
> Predating the web as a general place I can't say as where there is a
> particularly useful site altho I'm sure there are probably several.
>
> I've always been fond of Raymond H. Myers' book
> _Response_Surface_Methodology_ as being relatively thorough but not
> terribly advanced altho I'll admit much of that is from working w/ him
> lo! so many years ago...
>
> Another that is worthwhile is Box & Jenkins,
> _Statistics_for_Experimenters_ for it's commonsense advice and
> particularly a chapter or two on common pitfalls to avoid.
>
> Both of these, of course, date me as the "old fogey" I have become; I'm
> sure there are many much newer I've never seen that would be just as
> suitable.
>
> --Ok.dpb thanks a lot.