Thread: Roid Initation
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Unread 6 Mar 2003, 09:13   #17
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Originally posted by hyfe
You're right. The chance of the total disastrous no roid-outcome is however slightly higher when doing the more scans alternative. So it all depends on what definition of 'risky' you use
Code:
Roids:     5       5
Amps:      15      10
Scans:     10      15
Varians:   0,019   0,018
0 roids%:  0,004   0,001
and yes: god bless excel (or any other politically correct GNU'ish spreadsheet)
That is poor statistics as with 15 scans and only 10 amps you can never get over 10 roids. So your last 5 scans are wasted. That makes for lousy variance indeed. You should only compare combinations where the number of amps at least match the number of scans.

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