jasonreposa · April 3, 2012 14:02 · Apr 3, 2012
diff --git a/gistfile1.txt b/gistfile1.txt
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+// http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html
+// http://gist.github.com/raw/63002/b53853727856bad494dcbb7ffed4fc17f289af92/gistfile1.rb
+
+// $z is the pnormaldist with power = 0.05. I.e., pnormaldist(1-power/2)
+function score($pos, $n) {
+	if ($n == 0) { return 0; }
+	$z = 1.95996397158435;
+	$phat = 1.0*$pos/$n;
+	return ($phat + $z*$z/(2*$n) - $z * sqrt(($phat*(1-$phat)+$z*$z/(4*$n))/$n))/(1+$z*$z/$n);
+}