Simon wrote: "I was discussing the results with a colleague outside of the Game AI area the other day when he raised the question (which applies to nearly all sporting events, given the small sample size involved) of statistical significance - suggesting that on another week the result might have been 4-1 to Lee Sedol."
call me naive, but perhaps you could ask your colleague to calculate the probability one of side winning 4 games out of 5, and then say whether that is within 2 standard deviations of the norm. his suggestion is complete nonsense, regardless of the small sample size. perhaps you could ask a statistician next time. -- patient: "whenever i open my mouth, i get a shooting pain in my foot" doctor: "fire!" http://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/home https://www.youtube.com/user/djhbrown _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
