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Increasing n gives increasing weight to outliers, to the point where L-infinity is just the single maximum value. I would guess this is less useful when attemp
by ssalazar 10y ago
Increasing n gives increasing weight to outliers, to the point where L-infinity is just the single maximum value.
I would guess this is less useful when attempting to understand how existing data can make conclusions about future aggregate/typical cases vs. analyzing specifically the outliers.
- Sniffnoy 10y agoClarification: The l-infinity norm of a vector is the maximum absolute value of its coordinates. The analogue of the median and the mean that that gets you is the midpoint of the range.