Posted by John Nichols on June 10, 2011 at 08:36:49 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Stats posted by Jon on May 26, 2011 at 06:05:12:
If you are like Dick then statistics are fascinating, if you are like 99% of the nonracing world then stats leaves you cold and wet and miserable
Stats like : 90% of Australian men drink beer, 10% of Australian men are liars
The following stats lists the mean of the number of chapters, the number of words and the words per chapter, the second line is the standard deviation and the third is the ratio of the standard deviation to the average
31.09090909 99381.36364 3203.727273
3.203927514 9955.222106 184.1962063
0.1030503 0.100171921 0.057494347
The interesting observation is that the 0.05 shows that he was very consistent with the length of his chapters, compared to the length of the books. This ratio is called the COV and 5% for humans in really tight.
JMN