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| author | Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com> | 2015-07-02 00:16:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com> | 2015-07-02 11:20:42 +0100 |
| commit | 643aab2249992f4c4ad75e98ef3d43f3c6700895 (patch) | |
| tree | cb1872a16925e0464833f6f4ab7538ec675681c5 /lib/igt_stats.c | |
| parent | d01ebbd97ddb323564c75bfaaa374011fde4cd38 (diff) | |
stats: Add wikipedia links to get_trimean() and get_iqm()
Useful knowledge for anyone looking at the documentation and following
the linkes.
Signed-off-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/igt_stats.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/igt_stats.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/igt_stats.c b/lib/igt_stats.c index b7053c3c..70650ec7 100644 --- a/lib/igt_stats.c +++ b/lib/igt_stats.c @@ -496,11 +496,15 @@ double igt_stats_get_std_deviation(igt_stats_t *stats) * igt_stats_get_iqm: * @stats: An #igt_stats_t instance * - * Retrieves the interquartile mean of the @stats dataset. + * Retrieves the + * [interquartile mean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_mean) (IQM) + * of the @stats dataset. * * The interquartile mean is a "statistical measure of central tendency". * It is a truncated mean that discards the lowest and highest 25% of values, * and calculates the mean value of the remaining central values. + * + * It's useful to hide outliers in measurements (due to cold cache etc). */ double igt_stats_get_iqm(igt_stats_t *stats) { @@ -533,7 +537,8 @@ double igt_stats_get_iqm(igt_stats_t *stats) * igt_stats_get_trimean: * @stats: An #igt_stats_t instance * - * Retrieves the trimean of the @stats dataset. + * Retrieves the [trimean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimean) of the @stats + * dataset. * * The trimean is a the most efficient 3-point L-estimator, even more * robust than the median at estimating the average of a sample population. |