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> The median [..] just has a small advantage in that it will always map a real observation Not if the number of observations is even and the two "middle" obse
by irishsultan 10y ago
> The median [..] just has a small advantage in that it will always map a real observation
Not if the number of observations is even and the two "middle" observations differ.
- somestag 10y agoYes that's true. I was being somewhat charitable in affording it that benefit, but I did so because the article is the one that brought up the 1.9 legs example so that was kind of an implied benefit. And it's also true that you can use a "median" that picks one of the two, instead of splitting them, without any real downside if you want to preserve the feasibility of the statistic.