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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Swami predicts mac prices
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Date: 25 Oct 90 21:37:19 GMT
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In article <1990Oct24.233058.14408@unx.sas.com>, hecht@unx.sas.com (Mike Hecht) writes:
>Now that Apple has stabilized their product line and brought some order to their
>pricing structure, I've gotten curious as to how they set their prices. So,
>armed with my trusty stat package, JMP, I set about trying to derive a formula.
>I created a data table containing information about each mac model. 

[cut randomly generated drivel....]

>I fed in my requirements into JMP and it spit out a predicted price for the
>"Dream Mac": -150.73!! Apple owes me money!

Do they have a drug-testing policy at your place of employment? If so, how
have you managed to avoid detection? 

>Aren't statistics wonderful?

97.36% of all statistics are made up anyways.

>==============================================================================
>Michael Hecht                          Internet:  hecht@unx.sas.com
>SAS Institute Inc.                     AppleLink: SAS.HECHT

I thought SAS was a statistical package....