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CHAPTER 21 HOW PROBABLE ARE THE RESULTS?—A

SIMULATION STUDY

Chapter 21

How probable are the results?

—A simulation study

Nineteen statistical analyses were introduced in earlier chapters and results
displayed with respect to nine subjects:

• Diameters of the three celestial objects: the moon, Earth and the sun (M,
E, S), chapter 8;
• Diameters of the planets, chapter 8;
• Water specific heat capacity (SHC) for the three phases of water: ice,
liquid, and steam, chapter 9;
• Light wave frequencies, perceived by receptors in the human eye,
chapter 10;
• Color wave frequencies, chapter 12;
• Time-period frequencies, chapter 12;
• Various cyclic phenomena frequencies, chapter 12;
• Transition metals’ atomic weights, chapter 13;
• Other materials’ atomic weights, chapter 13.

Each of the nine separate categories of analysis was based on different and
statistically independent samples of observations. Each resulted in statistically
significant results (one was bordering significance). For all nineteen analyses
F-ratio values, significance values (p values) and scatter plots, together with the
fitted linear regression lines, were provided.
While statistical significance had been achieved for almost all analyses, one
may claim that the small sample size used in many of these analyses (three data
points) undermines any attempt to attribute meaning to them. One way to
circumvent this criticism is to ask: How probable are these results? Put differently:

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