Or you could quote the standard deviation with the average but that's a
bit too OTT ..... ;)! A very good point though. However its still a
great piece of work and an excellent guide which I know I'll be
referring to for some time. I now know what to expect when looking on
Evil Bay for OM stuff.
All the best,
Gareth.
> About average value: Arithmetical ave. value in
> not so much suitable in statistics, it's danger is
> that one extreme value can distort the result to nonsense
> value.
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