How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results
Open Access
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 29 (3) , 218-221
- https://doi.org/10.1145/5666.5673
Abstract
Using the arithmetic mean to summarize normalized benchmark results leads to mistaken conclusions that can be avoided by using the preferred method: the geometric mean.Keywords
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