Thanks Eugene, I agree trimmed mean is better than mean or median, but it still throws away too much interesting information from the distribution. - adrian cockcroft - Medium

It's great to see such an in-depth analysis on metrics.

Eugene Retunsky

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Jan 31

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Thanks Eugene, I agree trimmed mean is better than mean or median, but it still throws away too much interesting information from the distribution.

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