It is incredibly difficult to tease out changes in the shape of distributions from
such small amounts of data.
I think that there was no rigorous analysis demonstrating that we were in a bubble possibly because a rigorous analysis is impossible with
such small amounts of data.
You lost like 15 - 20 % of buyers by confirming those horrible prices for
such a small amount of data.
While Mann now casually admits the importance of
such a small amount of data, neither he nor his co-authors ever made any effort to correct their paper on the point.
Not exact matches
The large
amounts of additional
data, researchers say, has helped refine previous work, fill holes in the
data coverage, and also to rule out other possible causes
of some sediment deposits,
such as major storms, random landslides or
small local earthquakes.
He writes: «the
data of landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. is less than a tenth
of a percent
of the
data for global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes», and shows that from
such a
small subset
of data and given the
amount of natural variability, there is no way you would be able to detect a trend by now.