On 10/01/2012 09:39 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
Our results from 14 Java applications
Only 14? So it's a useless statistic.
No, that isn't true. How many language decisions in D are based on an
analysis of even 5 programs, let alone 14? What if you were testing to
see how fair a coin was, and it came up heads 14 times in a row? Would
you have a very strong suspicion that the coin was biased? This isn't an
idle question, as this kind of question happens a lot during preliminary
testing of medical treatments, for example.
How many examples you have to look at depends on what you are looking
for and the kind of results you get.
