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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8228320" data-attributes="member: 6795602">Not even rounds.&nbsp; Damage is cumulative over multiple rounds.&nbsp; For example, the expected value of 2 rounds of attacks is twice as much as the expected value of a single round of attacks.&nbsp; Because the expected value scales linearly with the number of rounds it's easy to talk about the per round damage (DPR) in a meaningful way.&nbsp; That's not the case with variance though.&nbsp; Your variance for a single round of attacks is not the same as your variance for 2 rounds of attacks which is not the same as your variance for 3 rounds of attacks - and there's no easily discernable pattern that we can model how the variance changes with the number of rounds.&nbsp; It's not linear and is a fairly complex mathematical computation to arrive at.Trying to summarize: DPR is not actually Expected Value (mean) - albeit highly related via giving us a y=Ax formula for the expected value where y is the expected value, A the DPR, and x the number of rounds.&nbsp; Variance is a measure that should be spoken of alongside expected value and not alongside DPR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 8228320, member: 6795602"] Not even rounds. Damage is cumulative over multiple rounds. For example, the expected value of 2 rounds of attacks is twice as much as the expected value of a single round of attacks. Because the expected value scales linearly with the number of rounds it's easy to talk about the per round damage (DPR) in a meaningful way. That's not the case with variance though. Your variance for a single round of attacks is not the same as your variance for 2 rounds of attacks which is not the same as your variance for 3 rounds of attacks - and there's no easily discernable pattern that we can model how the variance changes with the number of rounds. It's not linear and is a fairly complex mathematical computation to arrive at. Trying to summarize: DPR is not actually Expected Value (mean) - [I]albeit highly related via giving us a y=Ax formula for the expected value where y is the expected value, A the DPR, and x the number of rounds[/I]. Variance is a measure that should be spoken of alongside expected value and not alongside DPR. [/QUOTE]

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