17-05-2019, 06:54 AM
(17-05-2019, 02:50 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So it's like... we take the number 4 but forget about its meaning and origin until it becomes a meaningless form and then see whether it looks like the VM shape?
It's like, the ancient Greeks introduced the concept of the perfect circle. While no circles in the real world were perfect, the perfect circle was amenable to geometrical and mathematical manipulations and analysis. Results were meaningful and useful when transferred to the physical world.
It's also like, ANY curve can be described by a sum of exponentials and Rene has made good use of that in your support in the other thread. Sure, those exponentials may be "meaningless" but are still useful to plot a smooth curve reflecting the real data.
In the same way, create a (theoretically infinite) series of shapes between q and 4. Where on the series does the VM Eva-t shape lie? To calculate mean and sd I think you need the general formula describing the shapes.
Of course, I may be completely wrong, as I always say, I am a novice compared to some of you!
