originally posted in:Secular Sevens
If there is one thing I have learned about math, it is that it is imperfect.
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What do you mean by that?
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Statistics != Mathematics.
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Oh god, all the rough heuristics in statistics made me mad. -The IQR outlier rule uses 1.5*IQR -The CTL says that a sampling distribution is approximately normal if the sample size is greater than or euqal to 30 -Something is unlikely if its probability is less than 5% etc.
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Edited by HurtfulTurkey: 8/8/2013 12:22:52 AMI'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed that n>=30 is the general rule for normality. Makes no sense to apply that to every population.
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Sorry I don't understand the "!=" is it equivalent to the "=/=" ?
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