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Subject: Re: Program to calculate statistically significant results

Author: Michael Neish

Date: 08:40:20 01/29/00

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On January 29, 2000 at 11:07:38, Steve Maughan wrote:

>There has been quite a bit of discussion regarding how many games must be played
>before a result is significant.  As a result I have written a small program that
>uses the binomial distribution to calculate statistically significant results.
>

Thanks for the offer, although I'm one of those guys who's on a Mac, and so
cannot use it.

Just a question, does your program take into account draws as well, or just
wins and losses?

Cheers,

Mike.




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