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Re: [RT] Statistical Significance?



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Mark,

statistically your confidence doesn't rise in a linear way but as a square
root. In other words something that occurs twice as much has only a higher
confidence of sqrt(2) (about 1.414).
Look up the confidence worksheet function in Excel.

Rgds,
Soeren

> Hello realtraders,
> 
>   Statistical Significance?
> 
> gentlemen  (and  oxen)  can  we  agree  that  there  should be greater
> significance  in  something  that occurs 800 times out of 1000 rather
> than   8 out of 10?  please can we agree upon this?  if so read on, if
> not please continue spearing dinosaur.
> 
> ok  a  few  of  you made it this far i hope, now if we understand that
> something  that  happens  with greater occurrences than something less
> frequent.   then  we  understand  that  in  the  future when comparing
> trading methods - the following.
> 
> that a trading method that shows a greater statical reoccurrences ( it
> happened more times than any other method ) is the clear undisputed
> champion  of  trading  methods?   not saying that other methods do not
> work,  as  i  have  stated before there are ways to do something.  but
> there  must  be a better way or a BEST way to do something at least at
> some point and time.
> 
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