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No, there's not. In what universe is (optimistically) 5 data points a sufficiently large sample?
by morgante 13y ago
No, there's not. In what universe is (optimistically) 5 data points a sufficiently large sample?
- gaius 13y agoIf you have 6 things, then 5 is as good as you can get to extrapolate about the 6th.
- swombat 13y agoYes, when you have only 6 things to look at you might take an educated guess based on what might have happened to the first 5. It's the sort of contextual, gut-driven judgement people call a hunch. That's fine for a conversation about facebook after a few beers... it's pretty silly to take that and write a flippin' paper about it and present it as "research".
- Fomite 13y agoIt's not five data points. It's five trials with many, many data points - what you're fitting is a time series. Hell, for some epidemics (epidemic modeling being what I do for a living) I'd kill for five example cases to fit a model against.