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Line 22: :::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)