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Is mean a valid statistic for this dataset? I suspect that the score a link gets is highly variable and doesn't follow a known distribution, therefore, taking
by alexchamberlain 9y ago
Is mean a valid statistic for this dataset?
I suspect that the score a link gets is highly variable and doesn't follow a known distribution, therefore, taking a straight mean may not be a valid thing to do, or at the very least, very very skewed.
That being said, cool idea, well executed.
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