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Subject: Re: Who is better? Some statistics...

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:37:37 06/11/01

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On June 11, 2001 at 12:34:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 11, 2001 at 11:27:21, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>Your 100-game example is OK of course but the table covered also as few as 10
>>games.
>
>Actually, the 55-45 example doesn't match up with the table.
>
>I verified it with your program and in a worse-case-scenario
>(all decisive results) a 56-46 result gives a probability of
>88%, which is well below the 95% that Bas suggests.

Bas wrote:

Therefore the noise window is [45, 55] with 95% confidence.

Since sigma is 5 and the window is with 2*sigma, this should
be:

Therefore the noise window is [40, 60] with 95% confidence.

Which is very close to what the table suggests.

--
GCP



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