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Spivak • today at 8:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Someone using an actual statistical test to quantify if there's actual measurable improvement?! An angel among men.


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jerkstate • today at 8:48 PM

from my basic stats knowledge, it's not reliable to calculate the confidence interval of the sample proportion with fewer than about 10 samples on both sides. So if you're only seeing 1 or 2 failures in 20, and that approximately held as you scaled, you would have to run about 200 tests with each in order to get at least 10 failures in order to calculate the confidence intervals of the two samples and see if they overlap or not.

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