Comments on: Statistics, used improperly http://samjshah.com/2009/11/10/statistics-used-improperly/ Thu, 31 May 2012 12:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sander Huisman http://samjshah.com/2009/11/10/statistics-used-improperly/#comment-1801 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:46:56 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1635#comment-1801 I think the most worrying is the Kurtosis! In turbulent flows you need at least 10^4-10^5 to get statistically stationarity.

I’m not sure what a harmonic and geometric mean means with marks as well ;-)

I think a Histogram and a percentage of passing would give a lot more data than all those numbers ;-)

]]> By: Michael Lugo http://samjshah.com/2009/11/10/statistics-used-improperly/#comment-1606 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:53:15 +0000 http://samjshah.com/?p=1635#comment-1606 Oddly enough, I know who this professor was. I seem to recall that he was just more amused by the fact that the program he used could automatically generate this stuff than anything else.

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