- From: Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 95 16:34:02 -0400
- To: Hakon Lie <Hakon.Lie@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
One thing to keep in mind when compiling statistics about the Web is that in many cases the probability distributions involved are highly skew -- for instance log-normal or exponential. Depending on what you do with the stats, it may be more accurate to report, say, a geometric mean instead of the usual arithmetic average. For some examples and explanation, take a look at <URL:http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~burchard/www/stats/>. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu> ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...'' --------------------------------------------------------------------
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