Talk:Lambda
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Does anyone know WHY lamda is used as a symbol of the LGBT community? I came here hoping to find out....Redclaire 23:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
It's "lamda", not "lamBda"!
However, in modern Greek Pronunciation, it's probably '"labda", not "laMbda"' ...
== Goodman & Kruskal's lambda is a statistic which gives the proportional reduction in error when one variable's values are used to predict the values of another variable.
Uhm... here is wilks' lambda then?
Clarification:
The symbol for Wilks' Lambda is written in uppercase Greek: Λ (see under heading Upper-case letter Λ). The symbol for Goodman & Kruskall's Lambda (a different statistic altogether) is written in lowercase Greek: λ (see under heading Lower-case letter λ).
FYI, here are the formulas for each: 
[see http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~hf101702/Julia_Wilk's%20Lamda.pdf]
where ri = maxk(nik)
[see http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/getDoc/en/statug.hlp/freq_sect20.htm]
Mark Walter 06:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
