[9151] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: img statistics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Sat Oct 7 16:37:22 1995
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
Reply-To: burchard@cs.princeton.edu
Resent-From: 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/>.
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Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
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