95th percentile - the sociology study.

2006-02-27 Thread Jo Rhett
I didn't realize when I asked for how people handled a mathematical function for billing purposes, that the results would be more interesting to a socialogist than a network provider. I figured How do you (not how do I)... would be pretty specific, but apparently I underestimated the

Re: 95th percentile - the sociology study.

2006-02-27 Thread Bill Nash
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: All but three of the people who tried to teach me how to calculate 95th percentile were polite and clueful when I reminded them that I wanted the math, not a tutorial. A couple of misunderstanding actually wandered off into statistical analysis ramblings

Re: 95th percentile - the sociology study.

2006-02-27 Thread Jo Rhett
1 tried to convince me that modern equipment can't handle being sampled more often than every 5 minutes. On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:45:18PM -0500, Bill Nash wrote: I hope you disabused him/her of this notion. I didn't try to disabuse anyone of any notion - other than the fact that I