I'm no statistics expert by any means, but if you're displaying rates, I'd
do all computation with rates. It just seems like the least convoluted
option.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 1:48 PM Jiri Svoboda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently hbench selects the number of cycles, takes 10 time measurements.
> It then computes the average and standard deviation of the time taken. It
> then computes and displays the rate from the average time and cycle count.
>
> I am really interested in the rate, not the time. What I am missing is a
> number on the spread of the rate.
> What is the correct way of doing this?
> Is it correct to compute the rate from the average time? Or should we
> average the rates and get SD from there?
>
> Any comments, suggestions? Any statistics experts out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Jiri
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