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A brief introduction to measures of central tendency. The mean, median, and mode are introduced and calculated for a simple example. The relationship between the mean and median for different shapes of distributions is then discussed.
The guinea pig survival time data can be found in:
Doksum, K. (1974). Empirical probability plots and statistical inference
for nonlinear models in the two-sample case. Annals of Statistics, 2:267--277.
A brief introduction to measures of central tendency. The mean, median, and mode are introduced and calculated for a simple example. The relationship between the mean and median for different shapes of distributions is then discussed.
The guinea pig survival time data can be found in:
Doksum, K. (1974). Empirical probability plots and statistical inference
for nonlinear models in the two-sample case. Annals of Statistics, 2:267--277.
