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

[Martin Pool]

On 26 October 2011 12:57, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> 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.

Ah, that's great.  As I was thinking about this it did seem like the
kind of thing that must have been written at least once before.
Perhaps I should instead hook in to that.

m