On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 13:55:39 +0200 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-07-05 12:08 GMT+02:00 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > > If it's a gaussian curve (not a curse, probably :-)), then you can > > summarize it with two values: the mean and the stddev. But it's > > probably not a gaussian, because of system noise and other factors, so > > your assumption is wrong :-) > > What do you propose? Revert to average (arithmeric mean) + std dev > (centered on the average)?
Yes. And if you want to ignore outliers, just remove them: remove the 5% smallest and 5% largest samples. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Speed mailing list Speed@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/speed
