stats?

[gleipnir23]

Anyone out there in LJ-land good at statistics?  I need to compare the slopes of two curves and I used to know how to do it and my brain has somehow decided to lose this information. 

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[akasha13131]

bah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. yeah, that would not be me.

[gleipnir23]

ugh I know. See the problem is I knew exactly how to do it in this software program that I no longer have access to. It's one of those things you can't really calculate on your own :( And no one here at my lab seems to have a clue, either. I'm so desperate I'm this close to emailing an old coworker that I haven't spoken to in 5 years haha

[gleipnir23]

you'd think! haha. My labmate's roommate does a lot of statistics so we're going to see if she can help me.

[thairishkat]

do you have that little extension package in Excel? it's some kind of stats tool box or something.

[gleipnir23]

I don't have that. I have a stats program called graph pad in stat, I just don't know how to use it so well. haha.

[thairishkat]

Oh, i just recommended it because I hadn't heard of it until last year or so - when I was taking a stats class and realized I didn't need to use SAS or some program like that.

Good luck!

[gleipnir23]

yeah the only instructions I found online today were for minitab - which I used in my college stats course and couldn't for the life of me ever figure out how to use!!! hehe.

[polydactyla]

Phil helped me with mine. But I only had to do a tiny little 4 square thing.

[gleipnir23]

ask phil if he knows how to do a CANOVA.

hehe.

[gleipnir23]

yeah that's not what I mean. We've been doing ANOVA and that's sort of the problem because I have 2 curves with 16 points each and some of the points are significant by T-test or ANOVA and some aren't. So I think it would be better to analyze the slopes of the curves and that's what I don't know how to do :(