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Mean or median? (A note on an old problem)
Author(s) -
Kubat Peter
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
statistica neerlandica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1467-9574
pISSN - 0039-0402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9574.1979.tb00674.x
Subject(s) - mathematics , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , statistics , sample mean and sample covariance , location parameter , competition (biology) , geography , probability distribution , cartography , chromatography , ecology , chemistry , estimator , biology
The performance of the sample mean and sample median to estimate location for contaminated normal distributions is investigated. Both scale and location contaminations are considered and the problem is illustrated by the “Weight Judging Competition” example introduced by G alton in 1907.