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  • From: "MeLani" <mmaysen AT alltel.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] For Del mathematical and substantive meaning of the right
  • Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:19:07 -0600

Aaaahhhh ..
Finally, a message that I can truly comprehend.
Thanks Dan, I'd forgotten the comfort of eigenvectors.

MeLani
(an herb grower with a stats degree)


>-----Original Message-----
><snip> ........ correlation matrix is something from statistics. Let's
say
>you have a list of numbers. Call each number x_i where is
>just an index
>so we have something like x_0 x_1 x_2 and so on. Now you can
>suppose that
>these numbers are what we call random variables. Say X is a random
>variable for tossing a coin. If the coin is fair we would have a
>probability mass function p that said p(heads) = 1/2 and
>p(tails) = 1/2.
>You can imagine the random variable being more complex and the
>function p.........<snip>
> ........and values are
>useful for many things, well outside the scope of even this
>extended brief
>response.
>Chicken plucking?
>Dan Hook






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