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Message ID: 13689
Date: Tue Jan 25 21:58:10 GMT 2000
Author: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4
Subject: Stats 101 (was Deepwater Gobs)
> > Just a brief word on statistics. If you want to get a reasonably good
> > approximation of what % something drops, you need a number of tests one
> > order of magnitude higher than the range. So if its 5% you need at
> least
> > 200 tests for statistical accuracy. This isn't necessarily true for all
> > randoms, but for psuedo-random numbers such as computers produce, it is
> > generally the applicable rule.
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