Author: Martin Schubert
Date: 15:00:39 06/11/01
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On June 11, 2001 at 17:55:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 11, 2001 at 17:36:50, Martin Schubert wrote: > >>That's exactly right. So using the trinominal distribution is always more >>accurate then using the normal distribution. >>But both distributions doesn't have an solution for the problem that you don't >>know the probability of a draw. And all results depend on this probability. > >From what I understand of it this is addressed in >Peters utility. > >I could cut 'n paste the relevant portion of the >documentation here, but I think it's much better >if you just ask him to explain... > >-- >GCP Where can I get this documentation? Is it available in the net? Yes, I think it's adressed by using the number of draws which occured in the match you want to examine. But in statistics you are not allowed to use information from the sample you want to get results from for your hypothesis. Martin P.S.: I'm sorry, my english is not good enough for explaining these difficult topics. I hope everybody can understand what I want to say.
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