On 15.03.17 18:59, Victor Stinner wrote:
It's not easy to compare MAD to standard deviation. It seems like MAD can even be misleading when reading the "1 ms" part of "10 ms +- 1 ms".
Don't use the "+-" notation. It is misleading even for the stddev of normal distribution, because with the chance 1 against 2 the sample is out of the specified interval. Use "Mean: 10 ms Stddev: 1 ms" or "Median: 10 ms MAD: 1 ms" instead.
Maybe we need a new --median command line option to display median/MAD, instead of mean/stdev displayed by default?
Yes, make this configurable. And make median/MAD the default. ;) _______________________________________________ Speed mailing list Speed@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/speed
