In a message dated 10/27/2002 4:16:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jacobs@xmission.com writes:
If I tell a statistician that ten million hands have
> been played perfectly on a 10/7 DB game, he can tell me (within
> whatever percentage accuracy I ask for) what the range of expected
> results will be.I disagree. You can ask for 0.00000001% accuracy, but the
statistician can't tell you anything _meaningful_ to greater accuracy
than about 0.17% for a ten million hand sample.
Maybe my terminology is wrong as I am not a mathematican. Perhaps it is
percent certainty? I was attempting to say the number of SD's. If I ask for a
six SD's or whatever corresponds to .00000001%, there is some (large) range
of results which follow. It might be plus/minus 50% of the ten million but
there is SOME correct answer. Yes?
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