• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    8 months ago

    I know some of these words

    Mind giving an ELI5 version?

    Here's the data for 100 rolls with the yellow die if it helps.

    I copied it right out of the spreadsheet so I’m pretty sure it’s formatting is borked.

    4 4 15 5 11 15 9 20 7 19 5 12 17 6 18 5 3 2 19 14 5 8 9 1 7 7 2 7 7 2 19 13 11 7 5 3 5 9 15 14 5 3 12 1 9 1 20 19 13 1 1 3 6 2 3 8 13 15 4 4 1 16 2 5 1 12 12 1 5 3 14 11 13 6 8 7 11 19 6 13 20 3 12 15 4 4 4 10 20 1 7 1 16 9 14 10 16 12 20 15

    • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      Basically he is giving you info on how to interpret the result you got. A t-test (Student’s t-test) gives a “p-value” which sometimes comes up in some articles regarding a statistical result. It is a way of assessing whether the result you got is different enough from the expected value (a fair die) taking into account that you can’t throw the dice an infinite amount of times. Generally a p-value less than 0.05 is considered statistically significant* and you can trust your result.

      You can do the calculation here too if you want to get some values about it and more info.

      *) Sort of means that there is only a 5% probability that your result is due to randomness.

      • Tramort@programming.dev
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        8 months ago

        This assumed you only tested one die.

        If OP tested a thousand dice, and this is the one that came out on the bottom, then it’s incredibly likely it’s just random because of how many dice were tested.

        MULTIPLE COMPARISON CHANGES THE RULES OF STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING, and the OP is giving us a single result from multiple comparisons which are censored.

        Probably an innocent mistake, but not valid.