%0 Journal Article %1 Fleming:1986:LSC %A Fleming, Philip J. %A Wallace, John J. %C New York, NY, USA %D 1986 %I ACM %J Commun. ACM %K benchmarking evaluation mathematics statistics %N 3 %P 218--221 %R 10.1145/5666.5673 %T How Not to Lie With Statistics: The Correct Way to Summarize Benchmark Results %V 29 %X Using the arithmetic mean to summarize normalized benchmark results leads to mistaken conclusions that can be avoided by using the preferred method: the geometric mean.

@article{Fleming:1986:LSC, abstract = {Using the arithmetic mean to summarize normalized benchmark results leads to mistaken conclusions that can be avoided by using the preferred method: the geometric mean.}, acmid = {5673}, added-at = {2011-01-23T17:33:08.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Fleming, Philip J. and Wallace, John J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/281ad62c145b72559fd1b7b9dbf33cfb4/gron}, description = {How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results}, doi = {10.1145/5666.5673}, interhash = {56833388ee07b72f881f2024de322df2}, intrahash = {81ad62c145b72559fd1b7b9dbf33cfb4}, issn = {0001-0782}, journal = {Commun. ACM}, keywords = {benchmarking evaluation mathematics statistics}, month = {March}, number = 3, numpages = {4}, pages = {218--221}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2013-08-24T12:55:58.000+0200}, title = {How Not to Lie With Statistics: The Correct Way to Summarize Benchmark Results}, volume = 29, year = 1986 }