On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 01:39:32PM -0700, Michael Dean wrote: > I'm sorry to interrupt your esoteric (to me) discussion, but I have > a very simple question: would you define a "good unbiased sample"? > My statistics professor Dan Price (rest his soul) would tell me > there are only random samples of some sort, and "other", which are > always biased, and never good.
What's at issue here is a biased estimator, not a biased sample. If you know an unbiased estimator of multiplicity based on a random sample, that would be a great :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
