Re: Mean vs Median

Marius Georgescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.bmwg
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> On Nov 13, 2015, at 03:32, MORTON, ALFRED C (AL) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bmwg [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Emmerich
>> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:56 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [bmwg] Mean vs Median
>> 
>> On 12.11.15 16:19, Marius Georgescu wrote:
>>> [MG]  Thanks for sharing your paper. I am not sure if this solution
>>> would make a good comparison base. As I see it, the test report has to
>>> be synthetic enough to allow easy comparison. Reporting a single
>>> number might not be enough, but reporting 10 numbers is too much imo.
>> 
>> Maybe the latency report can be split into two categories: typical
>> latency and worst-case latency. The former being something like average
>> and standard deviation (or median and 1st/3rd quartile), the latter the
>> 90th and 99th percentile? A full test report should (optionally?)
>> include the full CDF or histogram as a graph.
>> 
>> 
> [ACM] 
> I have been suggesting (in many places and drafts) that the "worst case"
> delay should be characterized with RFC5481 PDV, so that it is a view of
> delay variation and more easily comparable across test runs. The High
> percentile as a single measure of PDV is built-in, and of course the
> CDF or histogram is a possibility:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5481#section-4.2
MG: I like the idea of using the 99.9th percentile as a single measure for the “Worst case” latency. 
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