Re: Stegdetect 0.4 released and results from USENET search available

[Ray Dillinger]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Harald Koch wrote:

>How many images are posted to usenet every *day*, never mind the sheer
>number of images stored on webservers everywhere. IANAS, but a mere one
>million messages is too small a sample set to be statistically
>significant.


Actually, statistically significant sample sizes have more to do with
the probability distribution than the sheer number of objects being
analyzed.  One million images has the same statistical significance
whether it's one day of traffic or one year of traffic.

                                Bear





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