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   by 0x31a 7y ago

   The parent post is referring to cryptocurrencies, not cryptography in general.
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   by 0x31a 7y ago

   You don't need equal variances - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welch%27s_t-test
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   by 0x31a 7y ago

   Even if you assume best intentions, A/B testing often comes down to a variation of a t-test, the interpretation of which can be fuzzy too - https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/P-ValueStatement.pdf (TLD
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   by 0x31a 7y ago

   The title of Bishop's book is Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.