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Old 05-11-2005, 11:45 PM
UprightCreature UprightCreature is offline
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Default Re: WHAT IS DERBS SCREENAME ON PP???

If we really want to learn something about DERB what we need to do is look at his future hands from this point on. The data up to this point is what we used to select him, that data is biased. Future data is not.

If we flip 1000 coins 1000 times and have a coin that is 4-sigma away from the mean it may be an unfair coin, but because of selection bias we don't know (its in fact not shocking to have a coin 4-sigma out in this situation). To find out if the coin is fair we flip that coin another 1000 (or whatever) times and we can then apply a confidence interval to those results because they aren't biased.

So lets wait a few months and then look at DERBs data from today (or maybe the op date) and draw conclusions from that sample. That data won't suffer from selection bias.
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