Re: [AMaViS-user] Log file analyser recomendations

>> I mean something like this...
>>
>> ================================================== ==============
>> Spam Score -5 0 3 5 10 15
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Percentile 5.89% 12.59% 19.43% 24.81% 35.02% 50.37%
>> ================================================== ==============
>>
>> just a thought. I'm normally thinking about what % of my mail hits a
>> certain score (in that I'm worried about high scoring ham or low
>> scoring spam.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>
> Ah, got it... you like nice, integer spam scores, and interpolated
> percentages. However, just so we're on the same page, your percentile
> chart does not answer your question "what % of my mail hits a certain
> score"... that's not the definition of percentile. The spam score 5 in
> your chart maps to percentile 24.81, which means that 24.81 percent of
> the values were *lower than score 5*, which of course is not the same as
> saying score 5 was hit 24.81% of the time.

that's true, you need to consider the difference between the percentages
to get an idea of that.

I guess it could also be done as two tables. One for scores below 5 (or
your spam/ham threshold) and another for those above. The important
thing to me seems to be how much falls in the grey zones.

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