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Originally posted by Bagpuss View PostThere is more than 1 Std dev and as pointed out a Geometric mean so maybe he wasn't being dumb
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostI was talking to the Finnish project manager. She says that at school, she learned 3 different ways of rounding - truncation, up (or down), and .5 goes up and less than .5 goes down.
Apparently, in the US branch, they've 24 different rounding rules...
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostCurrently developing a few report for a laboratory system. One of the reports requires the mean and std. dev. of a set of a results.
Just been asked by the business analyst who specified the report - "What formula are you using for calculating the mean and std. dev.".
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I was talking to the Finnish project manager. She says that at school, she learned 3 different ways of rounding - truncation, up (or down), and .5 goes up and less than .5 goes down.
Apparently, in the US branch, they've 24 different rounding rules...
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostBut has he ever done stats without a computer? Or without a calculator for that matter?
Many years' experience with the Yanks tells me you have to spell things out for them.
Yes, during me masters in operational research...
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Originally posted by Scary View PostMaybe geometric or arithmetic mean?
ETA: although I'm sure he could work it out by looking at the numbers
Many years' experience with the Yanks tells me you have to spell things out for them.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostCurrently developing a few report for a laboratory system. One of the reports requires the mean and std. dev. of a set of a results.
Just been asked by the business analyst who specified the report - "What formula are you using for calculating the mean and std. dev.".
ETA: although I'm sure he could work it out by looking at the numbers
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Said B.A. is from the subcontinent and has been resident in the US for over ten years. I don't think he knows what sarcasm is.
I've got him trained to the point where he doesn't just say - "the results are wrong", but rather tells me what results he expects and what he got.
Now I've just got to get him to explain why he expects the results he has.
Ah well - the downside of taking junior work. Still getting ++senior rate though.
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