Re:“You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?”
by YetAnotherNick on Friday November 25, 2022 @07:09AM
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I think the point is that the sample readings were in the range of voltmeter, but if some sample crossed 100V it would show as 100V in the voltmeter. So even though no sample crossed 100V, the data is clipped still.
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Re:“You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?”
by whatshisface on Friday November 25, 2022 @01:51PM
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That's not good statistics - just because the precision of measurements falls off sharply at 100V doesn't mean that out-of-range readings aren't valid measurements.
Re:“You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?”
by YetAnotherNick on Friday November 25, 2022 @02:42PM
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Assume we got one out of range measurement out of 100. We can't say anything about variance of reading if we don't have any prior on variance ie using bayesian statistics. That's the joke that traditional statistician can't figure out the obvious thing.