Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:00:37 09/03/02
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On September 03, 2002 at 12:33:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >There is a 1 / 10^30 chance you get such data. > >In short he has made up the data. The search times he has 'invented' >himself. > >I hope you realize that. > >It shows very hard he cheated. There is no way to escape statistical >analysis, even though in computer chess most dudes do not know what it is. > >They do not know you can catch fraud with statistical analysis. > >Bob sure didn't. > The sad fact is that "bob" knows more about statistics than you do. It simply doesn't apply _here_ because the numbers are exactly what they purport to be, raw node counts and times, taken from a log file and stuck into a table. They were checked by me. By Harry. And even by a couple of the reviewers.... Absolutely no reason to fabricate anything at all there. Any more than there was any need to fabricate anything in my PhD dissertation. Data is data...
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