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Percentiles not averages #12

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mmcgrana opened this Issue Oct 7, 2013 · 2 comments

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mmcgrana commented Oct 7, 2013

Reminded of this while reading Dynamo paper. Basic topic but probably can find a good short post that discusses it.

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mmcgrana commented Oct 7, 2013

http://apmblog.compuware.com/2012/11/14/why-averages-suck-and-percentiles-are-great/
http://www.goland.org/average_percentile_services/

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ryandotsmith commented Oct 14, 2013

What the Mean Really Means - Brendan Gregg

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