I think that one of three things is true: either "Hail to" is either a Walmart Wolverine or he never took a class in Statistics or if he did take the class he slept through/cut a lot.
One thing that Statistics makes very clear is that if a large number of independent events occur the distribution of that number will accurately reflect the respective probabilities of the different outcomes. For example, if you flip a fair coin 10 times you may get 8 heads and two tails, but if you flip a million times you will get essentially 500,000 of each.
Purdue and Michigan, as founding members of the B1G, have played many, many times. The NCAA Tournament games are a much smaller number. Thus, when attempting to accurately measure, reliance should be on the larger set of events. Simply put, Purdue is the historically stronger program by virtue of the B1G record. That is not my opinion, that is Math's opinion.
One thing that Statistics makes very clear is that if a large number of independent events occur the distribution of that number will accurately reflect the respective probabilities of the different outcomes. For example, if you flip a fair coin 10 times you may get 8 heads and two tails, but if you flip a million times you will get essentially 500,000 of each.
Purdue and Michigan, as founding members of the B1G, have played many, many times. The NCAA Tournament games are a much smaller number. Thus, when attempting to accurately measure, reliance should be on the larger set of events. Simply put, Purdue is the historically stronger program by virtue of the B1G record. That is not my opinion, that is Math's opinion.
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