How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages

Re:How percentile approximation works and why it's more usef... by slaymaker1907 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:42PM (#28529042)

I assume most of the distributions a marketing department would be dealing with are generally normal in which case stddev is a great way to analyze the data. This can be easily verified by just plotting said data and making sure the tails don't look weird.

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Re:How percentile approximation works and why it's more usef... by im3w1l on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @07:44PM (#28533117)

I can't help but idly wonder what humans are doing when they are eyeballing the tails, to see if things look good. Like lets say we wanted to do the eyeball test but automatically. Would the best way be to use an image classifier on the plot? Is there something magic about the plot representation that would make it good even for computers to use?

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