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--[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 14:58, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
:That sounds OK to me. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 15:05, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
How about subpage style: [[Average/Mode]]? Then we can have [[Average/Median]], [[Average/Harmonic mean]] and so on [[wp:Average#Types|and so forth]], and all of them will sort together in one place in task lists. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 16:05, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
:Let me expand on this: Does anyone ''object'' to my renaming [[Mean]], [[Median]], [[Mode]], [[Standard Deviation]], [[Moving Average]] according to this scheme? (I would also rename [[Standard Deviation]] to [[Average/Running standard deviation]] so that there's an obvious place for an all-at-once standard deviation.
:: No objection to the scheme, but might I suggest "statistics" instead? Or the more traditionally wiki-esque "Mean (statistics)", "Median (statistics)", etc? --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 03:14, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
:::Statistics is a very broad category covering a ''lot'' of different kinds of tasks, whereas averages all have something in common. WP says:
::::An average is a single value that is meant to typify a list of values. If all the numbers in the list are the same, then this number should be used. If the numbers are not all the same, . . . the average is calculated by combining the values from the set in a specific way and computing a single number as being the average of the set.
:::This seems to me to be a useful classification. (I now realize my inclusion of Standard Deviation in the list above was incorrect; while it does compute a single number from a collection, that number is not an average.) Using a prefix rather than a suffix has benefits for sorting. Additionally, averages are not merely statistical techniques: they can give exact answers to certain problems. (Er, I think. I'm having trouble thinking up an example of this at the moment (and it's rather late).) --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 03:56, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
::::If you pull standard deviations from the list, then "average" is fine. I won't press the point on disambiguation syntax. If you're looking for problems where averages can give exact or non-statistical answers, you might look at physics, motion and prediction. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 08:03, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
:::::Moving average is normally used as filter rather than as a statistical function. But if the page Average is created, I guess Moving Average should be there, too. BTW, Is there an example of sub-pages in RC somewhere? --[[User:PauliKL|PauliKL]] 11:59, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
::::::Yes, the Loop/ tasks, [[Loop/Break]], [[Loop/Nested]] etc. --[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 12:41, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
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