Re: img statistics

Paul Burchard ([email protected])
Sat, 7 Oct 95 16:34:02 -0400


One thing to keep in mind when compiling statistics about the Web
is that in many cases the probability distributions involved are
highly skew -- for instance log-normal or exponential. Depending on
what you do with the stats, it may be more accurate to report, say,
a geometric mean instead of the usual arithmetic average.

For some examples and explanation, take a look at
<URL:http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~burchard/www/stats/>.

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