[EM] Warren: Your method
Michael Ossipoff
mikeo2106 at msn.com
Fri Jan 19 09:50:34 PST 2007
Where a & b are 2 consecutive ingegers, Jefferson, having b as its rounding
point is very large-biased, and Adams, with a as its rounding point, is very
small-biased.
So it stands to reason that there's some roundng p;oint inbetween that is
unbiased.
But how could it be? Bias-Free's roiunding points show that, to make a
cycle's s/q = 1, each cycle neds a different rounding point.
How to reconcile those two arguments?
I suggest that there is a point inbetween that will be less biased than the
traditional methods. It will be crudely unbiased, with, in some sense the
larger states being balanced with the smaller ones, in s/q. But, on a finer
scale, it will be biased, and there will be plenty of measured correlation
between q and s/q.
At least 3 of my 4 methods, and maybe all of them, will be more unbiased
than your method.
Mike Ossipoff
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