If I recall my sadistics ... I mean, statistics classes correctly, Hops per request and Connection rate are not standard distributions so standard deviation is a misleading parameter to calculate. For example, ~98% of all values should be within +- 3 stddev of the mean in a standard/normal distribution. Does that mean that we have >1% negative hops per request, etc. if mean<3*stddev? Nope. These are Poisson processes I believe. Info about them can be found at: http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/poisson/index.html Maybe some sort of simple histogram would be a more meaningful diagnostic tool for these types of parameters (rather than going overboard and calculating the shape and rate parameter that are intuitive only to few).
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