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Someone else posted this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_median https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_median It’s the point the that minimizes
by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Someone else posted this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_median https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_median
It’s the point the that minimizes the distance to all the input points in Euclidean space.
- paxys 3y agoI'm going to guess this isn't what they actually mean. It's more likely just the spot where an equal number of people live left and right as well as above and below it.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoYou might be right, but I was more curious about what a technically accurate reading of the statement would mean.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoOK, so it is basically/usually the a real data point closest to the mean location. For something like population, where there are few gaps in data points, you would expect them to be basically the same because there is probably someone within a few miles of the mean. This means that an extra person in Hawaii impact the "median center of population" more than an extra person in San Francisco because the mean is part of the calculation, opposed to just a stack ranking. Is this correct?