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Croatian ancient river naming conventions
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RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions
(January 21, 2024 at 1:19 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote:
(January 21, 2024 at 12:41 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: OK, let me try to summarize it even more: I think that I've calculated, using birthday calculations and collision entropy, that the probability of that k-r pattern in Croatian river names (Krka, Korana, Krapina, Krbavica, Kravarščica, 2*Karašica) occurring by chance is somewhere between 1/300 and 1/17.

But it could still be chance.  

I'd hate for you to have wasted your time on this.

But the modern scientific method works via p-values. If, under the null hypothesis, the probability of some observation happening by chance is lower than 5%, you reject the null hypothesis.
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Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by FlatAssembler - January 20, 2024 at 10:35 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Angrboda - January 22, 2024 at 12:41 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 20, 2024 at 10:49 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 20, 2024 at 12:59 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 21, 2024 at 1:19 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by FlatAssembler - January 21, 2024 at 6:48 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Ravenshire - January 24, 2024 at 10:51 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 29, 2024 at 12:31 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 22, 2024 at 12:47 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 22, 2024 at 4:04 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 22, 2024 at 12:44 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 24, 2024 at 10:38 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 22, 2024 at 2:12 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 24, 2024 at 3:24 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 24, 2024 at 5:23 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 26, 2024 at 12:32 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 29, 2024 at 10:39 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 29, 2024 at 12:43 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 29, 2024 at 1:19 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 29, 2024 at 1:41 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 30, 2024 at 8:04 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 31, 2024 at 7:42 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Jackalope - January 31, 2024 at 3:53 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - January 29, 2024 at 8:19 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Ravenshire - January 30, 2024 at 11:36 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Angrboda - January 30, 2024 at 11:47 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - January 31, 2024 at 2:08 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - February 1, 2024 at 3:53 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - February 1, 2024 at 4:20 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - February 2, 2024 at 10:53 am
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Deesse23 - February 2, 2024 at 2:36 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - February 2, 2024 at 4:14 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Ravenshire - February 2, 2024 at 12:31 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Jackalope - February 1, 2024 at 8:00 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - February 4, 2024 at 1:56 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - February 7, 2024 at 12:28 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Nay_Sayer - February 10, 2024 at 7:36 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Ravenshire - February 10, 2024 at 6:04 pm
RE: Croatian ancient river naming conventions - by Angrboda - February 7, 2024 at 10:07 am

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