Re: [computer-go] strange results

[Christoph Birk <birk@xxxxxxxx>]

t.cooper wrote:
>At 20:28 11/05/2005, David Doshay wrote
>>Acceptable and high are relative to the person asking the question.
>>We often will run a set of games and calculate a 95% confidence
>>interval, and run another set of games where we get a 95% confidence
>>interval that does not even overlap. Our solution is MORE GAMES.

>On the face of it, this seems to contradict the rules of probability.  Is
>there some reason why this might be happening, or at least why it is not
>as strange as it at first seems? 

The reason is that we are NOT dealing with gaussian distributed random
numbers but the results of (computer) games. 

Chrsitoph

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