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Thread: Kimi, the demolisher
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19th January 2007, 16:46 #21
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Originally Posted by chap
If there is one year that supports your conclusion and five years that do not support it what is the outcome?
It is quite normal to disregard the data that does not fit the rest of the results from a statistical analysis.
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19th January 2007, 17:14 #22
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Originally Posted by Juppe
If there is one year that supports your conclusion and five years that do not support it what is the outcome?
It is quite normal to disregard the data that does not fit the rest of the results from statistical analysis.
In addition there are no statistical analysis here. It's simply matter of comparison year by year ...
Cheers.
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19th January 2007, 17:19 #23
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Off the top of my head, Kimi 'only' had more engine failures than his teammate(s) in 2002, 2004 and 2005. In 2001 he had none, and in 2003/2006 his failure count was as low as or lower than his teammates'. Furthermore, his engine failures in 2005 tended to happen very early on in the engine's life cycle so it's questionable if his driving style really affected the outcome - after all, if an engine can only take, like, 10 practice laps, it's a bit difficult to state with any confidence that it's a great engine.
That leaves two seasons during which he indeed had an abnormally high number of engine failures. I don't know what those were all about, to be honest, and I admit they do look a bit suspect. However, those were also generally poor seasons for McLaren so maybe they were taking unnecessary risks with their engines to be even remotely competitive - I don't know. I'm just saying that while you can simply add up the numbers over the years and conclude that Kimi's stats look a bit weird, it'd be a good idea to keep in mind that he's also gone three entire seasons with excellent engine reliability. That probably wouldn't happen if his driving style was exceptionally and unacceptably abusive.
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19th January 2007, 17:32 #24
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Originally Posted by chap
It is true that there is no real statistical study here and I am far too lazy to make one properly, but if there is one year's data that is very different from the rest, the natural conclusion would be either disregard it or to try to find a reason for its peculiarity. So what is false?
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19th January 2007, 17:35 #25
The only sure-fire fact is that the story was in SportBild.
Which makes the only relevant statistic this - it is likely to be 99.999999% sure-fire bollocks.
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19th January 2007, 17:51 #26
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Ilien denied it. This story stinks.
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19th January 2007, 20:43 #27
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Originally Posted by Shalafi
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19th January 2007, 21:32 #28
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19th January 2007, 21:49 #29
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Originally Posted by eu"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." —Robert Heinlein
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19th January 2007, 22:13 #30
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