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Calculating standard deviation of X hands
If I know the standard deviation of 1 tournament/hand, how do I calculate the standard deviation of X tournaments/hands?
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
SD is the square root of the average squared difference between data and the mean.
So if you got {8,16,4,20}, the mean is 12. The deviations are {-4,4,-8,8} which squared are {16,16,64,64} and the square root of that is {4,4,8,8} and the average of that is 6. So your SD is 6. I just usually think of it as the average of all the (absolute) distances to the mean - in your case for all X hands. Since I haven't done proper numbers in years and I probably even botched this minimal thing up. |
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
I play HU STTs and using my winrate I have calculated that the standard deviation for an STT is almost 1 buy-in.
What I wanna know is how do I then calculate how big the standard deviation is over a set of say 10 STTs using the knowledge of what the standard deviation is for 1 STT. I am pretty sure there is a simple formula for this, but a quick google didnīt help me. |
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
Sample standard deviation for n unknown is :
s.d /sqrtn So ~ 1/sqrt(10) Since we use the fact that the standard deviation for 1 heads up sng is ~ 1 . This should make a lot of sense since as n approaches infinity , the standard deviation approaches 0 . |
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
Thanks.
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
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Sample standard deviation for n unknown is : s.d /sqrtn So ~ 1/sqrt(10) [/ QUOTE ] Am I supposed to multiply the answer with the number of STTs as well? Like this: ns.d /sqrtn So (10*~1)/sqrt(10) |
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
No just the s.d for one buy-in divided by the square root of n .
For heads up it's ~ 1/sqrtn . For a 9 player sng , it's ~ 1.7/sqrtn , etc . |
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Re: Calculating standard deviation of X hands
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No just the s.d for one buy-in divided by the square root of n . [/ QUOTE ] But if I do the calculations to find the standard deviation of a high number of STTs (say 900), the answer seems wrong: 1/sqrt(900) = 0,033 buy-ins Say the buy-in is $105 and my long run ROI is 10%. I then read the answer as "it is 68,3% certain (within 1 standard deviation) I will end up with a profit of $105*900*0,1=$9450 +/- $105*0,033=$3,47. That canīt be right. $9450 +/- $3,47*900=$3123 on the other hand looks more realistic. |
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