Re: One _never_ knows if data is truly random or not.

From	Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: One _never_ knows if data is truly random or not.
Date	2016-07-12 18:37 +0200
Organization	Good company
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Dne 12/07/2016 v 16:33 Fabian Russell napsal(a):
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:48:23 -0700, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> 
> 
> For most scientific purposes a sequence is random if it
> passes a plethora of accepted statistical tests.
> 
> Which of the two following sequences is "more" random:
> 
> 5 1 9 7 2 3 8 4 7 3 
> 
> 5 4 9 7 7 6 5 3 3 8
> 

It cannot be said, as with just few samples it cannot be determined
if subsequent numbers follow some pattern or are equally probable.

There is up to 100 combinations of neighbor numbers,
but just 10 samples.

If there is 1000-10000 samples, more could be said.

-- 
Poutnik ( The Pilgrim, Der Wanderer )
Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

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