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To: Apollo who wrote (6905)	10/3/2000 12:17:44 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22706

perhaps you can enlighten us as to the role played by use of the Bonferroni Method Actually, I haven't really been discoursing on multivariate analysis, but if you want a reasonably straightforward discussion of Bonferroni's contribution you can find it here: mathworld.wolfram.com Do you disagree with my basic point, or did you just not understand it? ctb/A@thisflakcatchercan'tbemaumaued.com PS actually, although this thread isn't the place for it, it would be interesting to explore whether there's a difference between the natural sciences and social sciences in this regard. It's so much more difficult to come up with real intellectual progress in the latter that I am extraordinarily skeptical of people in those fields who use mathematical correlations without theoretical analysis to make a point. Furthermore, I would imagine that such methods would be particularly worthless for investing, seeing as how financial markets provide such great incentives to find and milk (and thus eliminate) any purely statistical pattern....