Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:06:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ping with standard deviation? Message-ID: <199707152006.QAA12902@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707152004.NAA21101@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199707151921.PAA12803@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199707152004.NAA21101@hub.freebsd.org>
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<<On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:04:08 -0700 (PDT), "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> said: > std dev and avg (ping already prints avg) are very sensitive > to outliers. how using the statistics suggested by vern paxson > instead? median in place of average and inter-quartile range > in place of std deviation. (from memory, i'll have to get > the phd thesis to check). I'd prefer something that's easy to compute and doesn't require O(N) storage. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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