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Adopt suggestion to show quantiles of the distribution
rhettinger Apr 22, 2020
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A bit clearer without periods
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n=4 is the default
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Round the quantiles for cleaner output
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Expand Up @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ Simulation of arrival times and service deliveries for a multiserver queue::

from heapq import heappush, heappop
from random import expovariate, gauss
from statistics import mean, median, stdev
from statistics import mean, quantiles

average_arrival_interval = 5.6
average_service_time = 15.0
Expand All @@ -513,8 +513,8 @@ Simulation of arrival times and service deliveries for a multiserver queue::
service_completed = arrival_time + wait + service_duration
heappush(servers, service_completed)

print(f'Mean wait: {mean(waits):.1f}. Stdev wait: {stdev(waits):.1f}.')
print(f'Median wait: {median(waits):.1f}. Max wait: {max(waits):.1f}.')
print(f'Mean wait: {mean(waits):.1f} Max wait: {max(waits):.1f}')
print('Quartiles:', [round(q, 1) for q in quantiles(waits)])

.. seealso::

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