{"id":913,"date":"2018-04-22T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skampakis.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T08:36:03","slug":"performance-measures-standard-deviation-mad-and-quantiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedatascientist.com\/performance-measures-standard-deviation-mad-and-quantiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance measures: standard deviation, MAD, and quantiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
xSomething else which I have found helps a lot is the use of error histograms and the standard deviation or quantiles when reporting errors. So, for example,<\/p>\n
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When a graph is relatively normal, the use of standard deviation makes sense, otherwise you might want to go for quantiles, or the median absolute deviation (MAD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xSomething else which I have found helps a lot is the use of error histograms and the standard deviation or quantiles when reporting errors. So, for example, <GRAPH> When a graph is relatively normal, the use of standard deviation makes sense, otherwise you might want to go for quantiles, or the median absolute deviation (MAD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n