Folks, > I wonder if this paper has anything that might help: > http://www.stat.washington.edu/www/research/reports/1999/tr355.ps - if I > were more of a statistician I might be able to answer :-)
Actually, that paper looks *really* promising. Does anyone here have enough math to solve for D(sub)Md on page 6? I'd like to test it on samples of < 0.01%. Tom, how does our heuristic sampling work? Is it pure random sampling, or page sampling? -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])