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From: "Ronald L. Minton" 
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Robert B. Waltz wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, "Ronald L. Minton"  wrote:
> 
> >My students have helped me make a table (one 500 page chart) of all the 
> >variants listed in HF1&2, UBS3&4, NA26&27.  I will let you know as soon 
> >as we have it transfered on to a spread sheet (Spring 1997 Semester).  
> >Right now the approximately 12,000 variants are not as valuable because 
> >we have to do manual calculations.  Still, we can get some data.  For 
> >instance the TR agrees with both Aleph and B some 300 times (3.1%) 
> >AGAINST the Majority Text.  Ours is a statistical table that has take 
> >nine years to complete (97% done).
> 
> Have you considered transferring this to a data analysis program --
> or, failing that, a programmable database? It means you would have
> to do a bit of simple programming to do your data modeling -- but
> you would also be able to create much more involved (and, IMHO,
> useful) statistics.

We are doing that this Spring Semester, God willing.

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Prof. Ron Minton: rminton@mail.orion.org   W (417)268-6053  H 833-9581
Baptist Bible Graduate School 628 E. Kearney St. Springfield, MO 65803

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