Talk:Interaction (statistics)
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Michael Hardy: I do not understand why you replace the word residuals (neutral) with the word errors then qualify the word errors as being potentially misleading! Residuals just means the difference between the model and the observations. What's your problem? Cutler 01:39, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Because that's not what "residual" means. As I said (and you act as if you did not read it) a residual is not the same thing as an error: a residual is an observable estimate of an unobservable error. Why didn't you read that before asking me why I changed it. Michael Hardy 21:50, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
OK, now I've created a new article, errors and residuals in statistics, which corrects Cutler's mistake. Michael Hardy 02:34, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Good article. Apologies that I didn't articulate my point as sharply as I chose my wording. Cutler 19:26, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal for merger
Greetings all! I propose that the content in the 'Statistics' section of the Interaction page be merged with the content on this page,and that this page be the destination for the statistics component of the forthcoming 'Interaction' disambiguation page. Please post any comments/ideas/concerns that you might have regarding this proposal. --DanSoper 08:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal for link
Hello everyone,
I propose that this page be linked to the term "effect modification", which is the term epidemiologists use when referring to statistical interaction. I would like to be able to type effect modification in the search field, and be sent to this wiki, except that I don't know how to create that linkage.
James
- I've created a redirect from effect modification to this article. Michael Hardy 21:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
