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| Sep 16, 2014 at 18:51 | comment | added | Michael M | @NickCox: You are right! Still, the statistic in the OP is called "shorth" in the literature ;). | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 18:03 | comment | added | Nick Cox | @MichaelMayer That's true for perfectly symmetric unimodal distributions and some others. A U-shaped symmetric distribution would have either half of the distribution tying for shortest half, but the central box would be longer. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | Nick Cox | See also stats.stackexchange.com/questions/76848/… | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 8:14 | comment | added | Michael M | This is the so-called "Shorth" of the data. For perfectly symmetric distributions, it corresponds to the box of the boxplot. | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 22:58 | vote | accept | Remi.b | ||
| Sep 10, 2014 at 16:13 | answer | added | Greg Snow | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 16:12 | answer | added | Matt Krause | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 16:12 | answer | added | Remi.b | timeline score: 3 | |
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