Re: Best statistical fit Message #8 Posted by Richard Berler on 30 Oct 2013, 8:06 p.m., in response to message #7 by Harold A Climer
I agree!
I was initially disappointed that some HP 50g integrations required substitutions in order to accomplish the integration. Yet, I find that I feel a bit more in touch with the problems when I carry out the substitutions, and get the correct solutions.
In my field, meteorology, folks will see a digital bank thermometer display or car thermometer display that is far from the true air temperature, and accept it as true simply because a digital display seems authoritative...
In statistics, the normal distributions are often blindly applied to data that is not truly normally distributed. With the statistic apps on calculators and computers, it's easy to come up with nice tables of standard deviations and so on, and folks will make probabilistic statements that are inaccurate (especially for the tails of the distributions)...
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