Re: reasonable probability

2000-12-06 Thread Christian Bau
In article 90k3vl$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote: AFAIK there is general agreement that unbiased humans are better at identifying the difference between unpunched holes and imperfectly punched holes than current counting machines -- which after all were only

Re: reasonable probability

2000-12-06 Thread Herman Rubin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Bau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article 90k3vl$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote: AFAIK there is general agreement that unbiased humans are better at identifying the difference between unpunched holes and imperfectly punched

finite population, Florida at 2:16 a.m.

2000-12-06 Thread Rich Ulrich
Does anyone have the numbers that were current when the networks jumped the gun on election night? - the early morning problem. Here is the problem. When I went to bed at 1:15 EST, I had been told by the talking heads - that, totaling 5 million, 90% of the Florida vote was in; - that

Re: Manufacturing Legitimacy

2000-12-06 Thread Paul Bernhardt
Donald Burrill wrote on 12/7/06 11:00 AM: And you didn't point out to them that a t-test (or any other statistical test, for that matter) is not applicable to a census? The t-test (and other inferential tests) may still be applied even to a census data set. If we take the view that the

Re: reasonable probability

2000-12-06 Thread Ray Vickson
Christian Bau wrote: In article 90k3vl$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote: AFAIK there is general agreement that unbiased humans are better at identifying the difference between unpunched holes and imperfectly punched holes than current counting machines --

adjustment of outcomes, sports. Politics?

2000-12-06 Thread Rich Ulrich
From an article in the Washington Post, December 3, 2000: the sport is water polo, and the favored UCLA team just beat Navy to read the NCAA final round. "UCLA's record includes four forfeits stemming from the ineligibility of Adam Wright, its leading scorer through 17 games. UCLA declared

assessing validity of empirically calculated probabilities

2000-12-06 Thread Aaron J Mackey
I have a process that attempts to calculate the statistical significance of the result it produces. If I run this process with 100 independent inputs, I generate 100 probabilities that the result occurred due to chance. I can then plot a qqplot of 1:100/100 vs. sort(probabilities), and if the