Author: Marc Boulé
Date: 07:17:44 06/29/02
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On June 28, 2002 at 19:29:38, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >DEFINITION: Apologetic SPAM: > >All discussions of spam [a canned version of ham?] and a variety of associated >apologies. > >_ _ _ _ _ _ > >These fall into a normal distribution where the independent variable is time. > >Or is it a different statistical distribution? An "abnormal" distribution? > >Are there any spamish computer chess statisticians here? > >:) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( > >_ _ _ _ _ _ > > >Bob D. Elo's assumption was that a player's strength distribution follows the normal distribution (the independant variable is the player's rating). However, Glickman reports that using an extreme value distribution might be more realistic. The extreme value distribution is biased to one side. Anyways, take a look at his papers at: http://math.bu.edu/INDIVIDUAL/mg/research.html Marc
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