dennis roberts wrote:
> just for fun ... i repeated this "test" 20 times ... with the following
> frequency distribution of the number out of 20 what i was told TO PUBLISH!!!
>
> 0 = 6 p = .3
> 1 = 9 p = .45
> 2 = 4 p = .2
> 3 = 1 p = .05
>
> interesting
>
> gerry's note at the bottom of the test says that the p value for NOT
> finding a difference is .3585 ... so, i cam pretty close
They simulate 20 independent 0.05 level tests, so the probability
that nothing is significant is (0.95)^20=0.3585. All I'm doing is
generating 20 independent U(0,1)s and tripping the flag whenever one
is <=0.05.
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