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This tag is ambiguous. Use it when the question is about sample size and NONE of the following are more appropriate: [small-sample], [large-data], [statistical-power], [underdetermined], or [unbalanced-classes].

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How do I figure out what kind of distribution represents this data on ping response times?

I've sampled a real world process, network ping times. The "round-trip-time" is measured in milliseconds. Results are plotted in a histogram: Latency has a minimum value, but a long upper tail. I wa …
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