Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 11:30:48 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 13:38:56, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 12, 2004 at 16:57:06, Peter Fendrich wrote: >>Well after 10 games you can't even rely on the accuracy of error bars and >>shouldn't use them (based on the bell curve) but the rating is well defined as >>one value. "x's rating after 10 games is 2739" is a correct statement. > >That is misleading and very bad science. >Why not say that the rating is >2739.8356245494183672715153891736273563 >? >Even though you are not even sure about the leading 2. > >>/Peter Is Peter one of the statistical scientists behind the creation of SSDF? I can't believe it.
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