On 24-Feb-09 17:25:53, Dieter Menne wrote: > Tony Breyal <tony.breyal <at> googlemail.com> writes: > >>Cheers for that information; I've just registered for the useR meeting >>in London and then about 10 minutes later got that same bit of spam >>too which made me a wee bit suspicious. > > Welcome in the Fooled by Randomness society. 2:0 is a bit away from > significance. But don't tell this to football/soccer fans. > > And, since my son asked me and I am basketball ignorant: Why are > basketball scores mostly much too close to equality? The arguments > (loose power when leading)
Or: Once you are in the lead, become much more defensive against attacking play by the other side ... Ted. > might suggest that 2:0 might not be significant, > but relevant. I tend to argue the other way round though, in medical > statistics. > > Dieter > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Feb-09 Time: 18:26:36 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
