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Subject: Re: Chess programming: A statistical approach

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 23:29:33 04/05/04

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On April 05, 2004 at 11:51:57, Roger D Davis wrote:

>Tim,
>
>If you're using multivariate regression, doesn't that assume that the regression
>variables are normally distributed?
>
>Roger

I'm not really sure.  My maths is OK, but not great.  As far as I know it's just
doing a 'least squares' best fit.  AFAIK, this should work whatever the
distribution, but it can intruduce large errors at the 'edges' of the
hyper-plane.

This whole thing was just a test.  I don't guarantee the accuracy of any of the
values... as I said I know I still have potential problems with the method.  I
felt that this was an interesting first test to do though.

Cheers, Tim.



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