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Individual Queries

The statistics hide the variation over individual topics. In general, different topics did best with different functions and parameters. In many cases, though, varying a parameter brings about an improvement or deterioration which is almost uniform over the set of topics. Surprisingly, we found no very large difference between the variances of the statistics obtained from different treatments.



Steve Robertson
Mon May 13 18:33:21 BST 1996