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Re: Aberration & Bet Size



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It sure shouldn't--check out Benoit Mandelbrot's suitably scathing
remark on this subject in the letters column of the current Scientific
American.

----- Original Message -----
From: Robyn Greene <greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rbl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Aberration & Bet Size


> "Robin B. Lake" wrote:
>
> > Probably will take a week or two to get to it, but I will take a
looksee with some
> > novel
> > tools.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, Robyn!
>
> Well let us know what you find out.  Does my concept of throwing out
the best and worst
> results in a large series of "bets" have any validity in the world
of classical or
> non-classical statistics?  Robyn
>