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- From: Patrick F. McGehearty <patrick@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Geometric Mean or Median
- Originator: patrick@mozart.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.164039.5856@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:40:39 GMT
- Distribution: comp.benchmarks
- Reply-To: patrick@convex.COM (Patrick F. McGehearty)
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- In article <1992Aug11.150615.26439@news.eng.convex.com> patrick@convex.COM (Patrick F. McGehearty) writes:
- >I don't know what title John recommends, but I find "The Art of Computer
- >Systems Performance Analysis" worth having on my shelves.
-
- I neglected to mention that Raj Jain is the author of "The Art of Computer
- Systems Performance Analysis", and it is available from Wiley Press.
-
- I'm told John Mashey likes to recommend "The Visual Display of Quantitative
- Information" by Edmund Tufte, and "How to Lie with Statistics" by Huff.
- I am not familiar with those books, but the titles sure sound relevant
- to performance work.
-