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Average of rate of change in a set of independent change events

What is the right method for computing average of percentage values? Arithmetic average, geometric average, or something else? Here's an example of problems I'm talking about. Suppose for years 2009, ...
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Quantiles for non-normal cdf

When I compute the five-number summary on my sample, I obtain quantiles that differ from the quantiles I got from the empirical cdf, since they are not normally distributed data. Can you help me in ...
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Calculate how big a variable is in relation to others

This will sound weird, but I'm trying to calculate something that I don't know the name. I want to calculate how big/low a variable is in relation to the others. Like Google webmaster tools says ...