Patent ID: 7925460

Claim:
A system for processing data collected from a document production environment, comprising: (A) a computer implemented data processing platform; and (B) a computer-readable storage medium comprising one or more programming instructions that, when executed, instruct the computer implemented data processing platform to: (1) read a set of document production related data, the document production related data being represented as a normal distribution or a non-normal distribution, (2) determine that the set of document production related data should be represented as a non-normal distribution, (3) perform a first test to determine whether the non-normal distribution should be analyzed pursuant to a first analytic category, (4) determine, with the first test of said (B)(3), that the non-normal distribution should not be analyzed pursuant to the first analytic category, (5) perform a second test to determine whether the non-normal distribution should be analyzed pursuant to a second analytic category, and (6) when it is determined, with the second test of (B)(5), that the non-normal distribution should be analyzed pursuant to the second analytic category, provide an output indicating that the non-normal distribution should be analyzed pursuant to the second analytic category, wherein the first and second analytic categories each comprise one of the following: a fat-tailed analysis and an analysis of a mixture of distributions.