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Subject: Re: Is there a statistician in the house?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:05:39 05/08/01

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On May 08, 2001 at 10:43:41, Martin Schubert wrote:

>How should this be possible? First you need a zero hypothesis, e.g. Fritz is as
>good as Junior. Okay, that's not the problem. But statistics is only possible
>when results are independent. When you're using booklearning, they're not
>independent. So you can't calculate a degree of confidence.

I can try to offer 2 solutions, but I don't know if they are good enough

a) assume booklearning has no influence on the zero hypothesis, i.e.
that the learning of Junior and Fritz is equally good. This sounds
reasonable, but may not be correct.

b) assume the booklearning is part of the zero hypothesis, so that
the strength of a program is also determined by its book learning
abilities.

If either of these fail, I would appreciate it if you could point
out why. This is not my area, but I'd like to learn more.

--
GCP



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