judge (was Re: this week in ~canonical-bazaar)

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:09:26AM +1100 I heard the voice of
Martin Pool, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Part of my idea here is that if we can get a bit of mechanized
> wisdom about how to validly compare two series of timing data, that
> would be more reliable than people either just eyeballing it, or
> making their own guess about what technique to use.

I've pointed up ministat a few times in the past.

e.g.,
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2007q2/026067.html>
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2008q3/047347.html>

The visualization is nice for eyeballing, and the calculated 95%
confidence intervals are right there handy.


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