On 5/30/14, 11:36 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
As well as the average (mean), you must provide standard deviation and degrees of freedom so that a proper error analysis and t-tests are feasible. Or put it another way: even if you quote a mean with knowing how many in the sample and what the spread is you cannot judge the error and so cannot make deductions or inferences.
No. Elapsed time in a benchmark does not follow a Student or Gaussian distribution. Use the mode or (better) the minimum. -- Andrei
