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Subject: Re: nullmove and tactics

Author: Pat King

Date: 05:58:59 03/28/04

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On March 27, 2004 at 18:43:59, Dann Corbit wrote:

>30 measurements are needed for reliable statstical inference.
>You can't even use the T-test or some other estimatrs with less than 30
>measurements (or you shouldn't because the result is invalid).

Funny, that's not what your links say. The second one appears to be broken BTW.
>
>See (for instance):
>http://math.usask.ca/~szafron/STATS244_chapter9_notes.pdf
>http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~hess/ST101/Notes/
>
>Without at least 30 observations, the quality of the computed answer is so low
>as to be nearly useless.
>
>Is it better?  Quite likely.  How much better?  You haven't an inkling yet.

Nope, nor am I interested. The change is better than the original, time to write
more changes :)

Pat



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