Re: [PHP] Deviation? Distribution? OT?

2007-05-03 Thread tedd
At 3:11 PM -0500 5/2/07, Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2007 7:55 am, tedd wrote: Let me estate the problem. From your dB of things (the population), you're going to pull out the top 100 most popular items and then divide them into five groups using labels t1 through t5. Considering

Re: [PHP] Deviation? Distribution? OT?

2007-05-02 Thread tedd
At 4:42 PM -0500 5/1/07, Richard Lynch wrote: Little help here? Richard: Let me estate the problem. From your dB of things (the population), you're going to pull out the top 100 most popular items and then divide them into five groups using labels t1 through t5. Considering that it's css

Re: [PHP] Deviation? Distribution? OT?

2007-05-02 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, May 1, 2007 4:48 pm, Daniel Brown wrote: I don't think I'm quite following why you wouldn't just want to break it up into groups of 20 Because in the real world, it's not an even distribution of popularity. There are only 1 or 2 Legends, and a handful of Rock Stars, and a

Re: [PHP] Deviation? Distribution? OT?

2007-05-02 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, May 2, 2007 7:55 am, tedd wrote: Let me estate the problem. From your dB of things (the population), you're going to pull out the top 100 most popular items and then divide them into five groups using labels t1 through t5. Considering that it's css guy asking for this, he's probably

[PHP] Deviation? Distribution? OT?

2007-05-01 Thread Richard Lynch
My boss and the web designer have decided to do something that requires statistical formulae well beyond my statistically-challenged capabilities, so I'm turning to y'all... Basically, the current query looks something like this: select * from (select whatever, count(*) as popular from

Re: [PHP] Deviation? Distribution? OT?

2007-05-01 Thread Daniel Brown
I don't think I'm quite following why you wouldn't just want to break it up into groups of 20 On 5/1/07, Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My boss and the web designer have decided to do something that requires statistical formulae well beyond my statistically-challenged