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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Michael Bakunin who wrote (48242)2/22/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: BGR  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
Michael,

A cardinal rule in time series analysis (or any series, BTW) is never to indulge in selective sampling. Otherwise, by analyzing specific segments of a random series of unbiased coin tosses one may (over/under)-estimate the probability of occurrence of any given pattern.

-BGR.