Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 06:22:45 06/11/01
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On June 11, 2001 at 05:08:00, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >It's a bit unfortunate there is little explication of the used >mathematics :( It only says it is based on the binominal distriubtion. >If anyone has an idea on how it could work, please post, as >I will begin working on a similar program but based on other >mathematics soon. > When the distribution is binomial, I would imagine that the model is that each game is a bernoulli trial, with the probability p that player A wins. This seems like an OK model. Of course, the result can be a draw. But either you can choose to ignore draws, or you can count the draws as well and get a polynomial distribution.
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