I looked at the info. The methodology is sound but the statistical sample
is way too small for any degree of accuracy. To test a procedure where the
range is 1-100 (percentile roll) you need at least one order of magnitude
higher to get statistical accuracy down to an acceptable level. That means
1000 attempts at each test level.
Anyone who has ever camped for what undoubtedly is an X% treasure spawn
knows this. 100 times might get 3 once, and none the next, and 20 the next.
1000 times though will nearly always come up very similar.

Kitasi

-----Original Message-----
From: Rokenn Swiftsong [mailto:rokenn@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 11:09 AM
To: EQBards@onelist.com
Subject: [eqbards] Interesting thread I found on a Monk board

From: "Rokenn Swiftsong" <rokenn@...>

On a monk board I have been reading lately (started playing my monk again) I

found a link to an interesting discussion on the benefits (or lack there of)

of stat buffs. The Shaman that ran the test came to the conclusion that
that buffing Str had a negative impact on damage. Here is a link to the
thread:

http://www.soerbaird.com/forums/Forum16/HTML/001893.html

I would love to read John's comments on this :)

Rokenn Swiftsong - Karana server

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