Disturbing Stats

[FlyingTiger]

Port are interesting and with the likes of a fit Tredrea, the Cornes brothers, Lade, both the Burgoynes the Power can rebuild quicker than some may think, and i reckon they will be back sooner rather than later.

not convinced of this. they don't have much depth after the above mentioned players and i've heard tredrea may never get back to his best

i feel like a guiness

How appropriate: the creator of the t-test statistic developed it while working at Guiness. But you knew that anyway, Ian: i never presume co-incidences as a first option.

i didn't know... you learn something new everyday

I did third year stats at Uni (yes it was a long time ago), aced it with a HD and never understood a word of it.

All a load of *smile* if you ask me.

FT

 

[Tigerfan]

you must have one of those kinds of brains Flyer


one for you Ian

The t statistic was invented by William Sealy Gosset for cheaply monitoring the quality of beer brews. "Student" was his pen name. Gosset was a statistician for the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland, and was hired due to Claude Guinness's innovative policy of recruiting the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to apply biochemistry and statistics to Guinness's industrial processes. Gosset published the t test in Biometrika in 1908, but was forced to use a pen name by his employer who regarded the fact that they were using statistics as a trade secret. In fact, Gosset's identity was unknown not only to fellow statisticians but to his employer—the company insisted on the pseudonym so that it could turn a blind eye to the breach of its rules.

Today, it is more generally applied to the confidence that can be placed in judgements made from small samples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t_test

 

[FlyingTiger]

you must have one of those kinds of brains Flyer


one for you Ian

The t statistic was invented by William Sealy Gosset for cheaply monitoring the quality of beer brews. "Student" was his pen name. Gosset was a statistician for the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland, and was hired due to Claude Guinness's innovative policy of recruiting the best graduates from Oxford and Cambridge to apply biochemistry and statistics to Guinness's industrial processes. Gosset published the t test in Biometrika in 1908, but was forced to use a pen name by his employer who regarded the fact that they were using statistics as a trade secret. In fact, Gosset's identity was unknown not only to fellow statisticians but to his employer—the company insisted on the pseudonym so that it could turn a blind eye to the breach of its rules.

Today, it is more generally applied to the confidence that can be placed in judgements made from small samples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%27s_t_test

small samples have helped me father a tribe of young-ens.

t-test is still a load of crap.

FT

 

[skybeau]

DDT, is that the same Student who's name is attached to the Student-Newman-Keul pairwise comparison of means test? My lecturer probably said it, but I probably wasn't listening...

on an aside, the best exam I ever had was first year stats...had about 13 multichoice, basic EASY maths problems, then 6 long answer questions...the underlying workings of which being explained by a "cheat sheet" section of the textbook we were permitted to take in :hihi :hihi :hihi honestly, did they NOT read the textbook...?

 

[RROFO]

You guys are FAR to close to your exams at the moment. You should be banned from all football related sites. The only thing I have to think about exams is I don't have to do them any more. Read it and weep boys, read it and weep. :rofl

SOOOOOO young. So very very young

 

[RROFO]

Actually DDT, you're not much younger than me! What's your story!

 

[Tigerfan]

Actually DDT, you're not much younger than me! What's your story!

i wanted to make movies, which i did, wrote directed several shorts, but ended up a camera assistant (clapper loader) holding the little clapper bord and loading film.

Great job when you're single. Well paid but sporadic work with travel.

but I married and sired twice, so responsibility reared it's ugly head: off to Uni to get a career qualification. In two years I'm a provisionally reg'd psychologist.

 

[Tigerfan]

DDT, is that the same Student who's name is attached to the Student-Newman-Keul pairwise comparison of means test?

No idea, i'll check a bit later. Gotta go out into society for a little while.

 

[Bill James]

Actually DDT, you're not much younger than me! What's your story!

i wanted to make movies, which i did, wrote directed several shorts, but ended up a camera assistant (clapper loader) holding the little clapper bord and loading film.

Great job when you're single. Well paid but sporadic work with travel. 

but I married and sired twice, so responsibility reared it's ugly head: off to Uni to get a career qualification. In two years I'm a provisionally reg'd psychologist.

and the career qualification? :hihi