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Re: The Darn Old Cocked Hat - the sequel 1
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2013 Mar 13, 13:44 -0700
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2013 Mar 13, 13:44 -0700
see april 2007 bias and cocked hat
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Actually, the Goudsmit result can be achieved by averaging over the entire grand canonical ensemble of possible cocked hats within the probability distribution you describe, as was done by somebody using Monte Carlo methods (I forget who) the last time we went through this.
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