On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:34:06AM -0800, Martin Stone Davis wrote:
> >Interesting. But I'm not sure whether your function for DDF is
> >the best one. Further I'm not sure whether the problem at hand
> >(average a bernoulli distribution) has a good solution without
> >memorizing the last N values.
> Well, IF the variable truly acts like a random Bernoulli variable, then 
> I doubt it's necessary to memorize the last N values.
> 
> However, if it does something like this (for example): 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 
> 0 1 1 1 1 0 0, where every other value really depends on the prior 
> value, then some kind of pattern-recognition algorithm could figure that 
> out and allow us to make better predictions.  We human beings should 
> look at the pattern of failures/successes for each binary variable we 
> use in the estimator to see that my assumption of a random Bernoulli is 
> a good one.

It would be useful to have that data on the RT node detail page.
> 
> >
> >Kendy
> >
> 
> -Martin

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