All very helpful and informative replies but my actual question was not answered, probably from poor phrasing from my part.
I have two data sets.
One is based on race time, leader to 400m, leader to 800m, final 400m, ect.
The other is the same but for individual horses. How fast the individual horse ran to the 400m, 800m, final 400m, ect.
When dealing with the second dataset of individual horses should I base the pars off the first dataset which is based on race time, leader to X, finishing time. Or is there merit in calculating some sort of median, mean or mode based on all the individual horse sectionals?
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