<div dir="ltr">Actually I think the concept I need is the trimmed mean.<div>throwing away the highest couple of values (lowest couple are not to be thrown away because they can't be errant).</div><div>It isn't perfect but it would help.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:39 AM, jb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@dslr.net" target="_blank">justin@dslr.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A while ago I changed from mean to median with the reasoning being that one spike to a crazy level was not representative of bloat but instead representative of a network stall or other anomaly. Graphs that were nearly all good samples with one outlier were being unfairly graded poorly.<div><br></div><div>But this example has the opposite issue - the median of this set of samples is the first half where everything is ok. Hence the good score. Using a mean would be correct for this sample.</div><div>What should happen is to throw away a couple (max) outliers first, then do a mean to avoid punishing the results that come in as good but include one errant measurement.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>-Justin</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Dave Taht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This has major bloat happening at the end of the upload test. Which<br>
worries me - here, at a gbit.<br>
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