Nor is this the only reason we should not put TOO much faith in the dashboard. There are other reasons that sampling might be skewed.
That said, I am no longer so interested in maintaining 1.5 users either, since even if the dashboard figure was off by 100%, there just aren't that many 1.5 users anymore. But my main point is to remember that the dashboard figure IS only a sampling, an attempt to measure by a sampling process, measure a population that is much larger than the actual sample. It takes only a little experience with the sampling problem in statistics to realize how subtly misleading such a sample can be. The vendor of Statistica, StatSoft, has done us all a great public service by making an excellent Statitics textbook freely available on the web at http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/. Somewhere in their I once found a great discussion of the sampling problem. On Jan 17, 7:37 am, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thats fine, but doesn't give you any stats on your own app, which is > very important for maintaining customer loyalty. > > We intend to make the company a truste name (not just the apps) in the > market with quality product, so we really want to know what *our* > users are doing. > > - Brill Pappin > > On Jan 17, 10:19 am, Laks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is this what you are looking for? > > >http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
