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Where do you stand? Notions of the statistical ‘centre’
Author(s) -
Hanley James A,
Lippman Abby
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1999.tb00805.x
Subject(s) - centrality , simple (philosophy) , computer science , mathematical economics , econometrics , statistics , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy
Summary We present a simple problem that can help highlight the decision‐theoretic properties of various centrality measures. We also illustrate how the ‘centrality’parameters of the classical distributions in statistics would have to be modified if we were constrained to fewer defining principles.