Using resampling techniques to compute confidence intervals for the harmonic mean of rate-based performance metrics

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Patil, Shruti ^a   Lilja, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonparametric statistics; Performance of Systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PERFORMANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECONDS; HARMONIC MEAN; INFORMED DECISION; INSTRUCTIONS PER CYCLES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; RESAMPLING; RESAMPLING TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL RESAMPLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953291653     PISSN: 15566056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/L-CA.2010.1     Document Type: Article

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