On Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:21:30 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > ... it's nothing to do with more power or whatever, it's down to simple > statistics. If genloop guesses the statistical spread wrongly, it's > going to mess up its estimates.
Aren't you exaggerating genlop's complexity? I wasn't aware of any use of statistics in it, other than a simple arithmetic mean to estimate the time remaining. It certainly seems to do that, anyway. > If you have a double-peak distribution, with a large short-lived peak, > and a small long-lived peak, you can get some weird results, especially > if you have assumed a bell curve (almost always wrong) or an exponential > decay (which is generally, NOT ALWAYS, a good choice). I doubt it does any of that. -- Regards, Peter.
