On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:13:36PM -0700, Martin Stone Davis wrote: > I have not RTFS, but I am pretty good with probabilities and statistics. > > I doubt the answer is "1-(pConnectFailed+pSearchFailed)" because that > might produce negative probabilities. Suppose both are 2/3.
I don't think pConnectFailed+pSearchFailed could be greater than one because the two events are mutually exclusive. If the connection fails, then the search can't fail because there is no search. If the search fails, then the connection couldn't have failed. > Now the crucial question: Does pSearchFailed just estimate "the > probability that the search will fail given the connection succeeded"? That is the assumption I am working on and it appears to be what the source tells me. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Weblog http://slashdot.org/~sanity/journal _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
