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Old 11-21-2005, 06:54 AM
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Default Calculating win rate

How can I calculate the probability P of my winrate x(bb/100), having a hand history of n hands with an average profit of q (bb/100)?
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Old 11-21-2005, 10:50 AM
stoxtrader stoxtrader is offline
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Default Re: Calculating win rate

are you assuming a normal distribution or not? I'm unclear whether this is normally distributed, or whether it even matters, as I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous, and am trying to really understand it.
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Old 11-21-2005, 12:20 PM
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I am not sure this can be assumed but I think so. I don't know much about it either (did have some statistics courses a while ago). If so, standard deviation should also be taken into account I think.
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Old 11-21-2005, 06:15 PM
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Default Re: Calculating win rate

If you have the standard deviation of your actual rate, and are willing to assume a Normal distribution with constant parameters (the second assumption is more problematic than the first), then you can compute the reverse probability: the probability that with an long-term win rate of W you will experience an actual win rate of X over N hands.

People typically form confidence intervals by looking at all the W's that have probability p (5% is a common value) of producing a win rate of X or one farther from W than X.

It's a bit confusing, but if you have the standard deviation, someone here can do the calculation.
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