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Subject: Re: Statistics and Test results

Author: Chris Welty

Date: 14:42:20 10/07/04

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>Playing 30 games in a row does not count as a random sample.

Why not?

>You set your criteria before hand.  i.e., do you want to be
>95% confident that you have the right answer? 99% confident?  Then, you decide
>on the proper test to use and the sample size.

Sorry, you can't decide the confidence level before you do the statistical test.
It's output from the statistical test.



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