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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: Geometric Mean or Median
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.172209.3108@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:22:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug9.201016.10008@nosc.mil> <PRENER.92Aug9220648@prener.watson.ibm.com> <1992Aug12.012620.3441@nosc.mil>
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- In article <1992Aug12.012620.3441@nosc.mil> aburto@nosc.mil
- (Alfred A. Aburto) writes:
- >Ah, that was a good point! I was not thinking of the Median as being
- >TOO insensitive to extreme data values. I was thinking more from the
- >sense of reliability of the measure of performance, from the consumer
-
- Well this is why a person should NOT
- 1) rely on one number like a mean or a median
- and should
- 2) consider other statistics like variance, or the mean (arithmetic,
- harmonic, or geometric) of a completely different measure.
-
- Thanks for the defense while I was on vacation. Now if I can get some time
- to work on the FAQ.....
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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