Re: [Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-17 Thread Bastiaan Bergman
LEAST significant digit. On Mar 16, 2012 2:48 AM, Xavier Luminous xavier.lumin...@googlemail.com wrote: Off the top of my head I'd like to mention that Benford's Law is particularly good at rooting out cheaters. Basically, the most significant digit from a sets of naturally occurring data

Re: [Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-17 Thread Alain Sepeda
ok, I make a mistake. there is a law that any set of physical value (unbounded), will have the most significant digit respect a log law. this case seems different. and also i should have guessed that vote don't respect that law, since it is bounded. however correlations, or indirect values,

Re: [Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-16 Thread Xavier Luminous
Off the top of my head I'd like to mention that Benford's Law is particularly good at rooting out cheaters. Basically, the most significant digit from a sets of naturally occurring data tends to follow a well known power law distribution. This is true for things like lengths of rivers, street

Re: [Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-16 Thread Alain Sepeda
it seems that in rogue finance, money laundry and rogue business some start to invent data that respect that law to look good. the trick to detect that fake is to use the same rule for the correlation between data, which might be meaningless, but will respect the low. the idea of that law is

[Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-15 Thread James Bowery
The reason I'm posting this to vortex-l is that of all the candidates, the only one that represents a serious threat to establishment science is Ron Paul. The basic story is that a signature of vote flipping has turned up -- and the beneficiary in every case of this signature has been Mitt