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[RC] Analysis of fatality rates - k s swigartIn the report, Truman's comment: The 22 year old horse is sufficiently close to the 5 to 20 category to make the use of the statistic from this category valid. Even if you threw out the 22 year old and reduced the sample space by one horse and the fatalities by one - Throwing out the one 22 year old death and reducing the sample space by one would be a totally inaccurate way to do things as it assumes that the only horses over the age of 20 that compete in endurance rides ever is the one 22 year old that started only once over the age of 20 and died during that ride. I don't have a huge problem with using the 5-20 year old age range in the statistics available about the general population because endurance horses mostly DO fall into this age category and it is, presumably, the best data available... ...but please, do not try to adjust the AERC data by throwing out one start and one fatality. You would have to throw out ALL the AERC starts of horses that don't fall into the 5-20 year old range, and all their deaths at rides (which is, apparently, one). kat Orange County, Calif. "If the end justifies the means, everybody is justified." John G. Beck, PhD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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