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Subject: Re: nullmove and tactics

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:09:11 03/29/04

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On March 28, 2004 at 08:58:59, Pat King wrote:

>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 :)

Theory says it should be 100 Elo better or more (because of a 3x speedup) and
you get 10 Elo.  You would not find that interesting?



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