>
>My main point was not about baseball or Bonds. It was about the
>cavalier way that people toss around the phrase, "regression to
>the mean," as if it were an immutable law that trumped all other
>differences in conditions.
>
>--Robert Chung
right ... reg. to the mean is not a cause of anything ... but, a
description of the relationship between variables ... and how the RELATIVE
POSITIONS on one tend to go along with the RELATIVE POSITIONS on the other
it's not less than that and certainly no more than that
if bonds breaks the record ... reg. to the mean will not flawed ... and if
he does not break the record it is not because reg. to the mean works
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