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Hi Tobias, > I trust your knowledge about statistics, but am wondering why ministat (and > it's t-test) is promoted as a statistical sane tool for benchmarking > results. I do not know... Ask author of ministat? > Is the use of the t-test for benchmark results a bad idea in > general? No, in general. But one should be aware about the assumptions of the underlying theory.

On 06/30/2013 02:14 AM, Anton Korobeynikov wrote: > Hi Tobi, > > First of all, all this is http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1367 :) > >> The statistical test ministat is performing seems simple and pretty >> standard. Is there any reason we could not do something similar? Or are we >> doing it already and it just does not work as expected? > The main problem