Timeline for Which converges faster, mean or median?
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 7:12 | comment | added | Xi'an | There is a confusion there: the theoretical mean and variances of the normal distribution are the same quantity. However, the empirical mean and median of a normal sample are not the same. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 4:44 | comment | added | Yair Daon | My reference is probably not as impressive as the one @Glen_b provided. I remember that it is in Bulmer's Principles of Statistics. But I think for your case the refrence I added in my answer suffices. | |
| Feb 11, 2015 at 4:41 | history | edited | Yair Daon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added refrence to explanation in wikipedia
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| Feb 11, 2015 at 4:38 | comment | added | Yair Daon | @xi'an did you mean to write that the mean and median are the same quantity? | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 9:58 | comment | added | user541686 | @Glen_b yeah that was an epic response, I laughed pretty hard. Thanks for that! | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 7:42 | comment | added | Xi'an | @Glen_b: (+1) the ultimate reference!!! | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 5:08 | vote | accept | Josh Brown Kramer | ||
| Feb 6, 2015 at 4:42 | comment | added | Glen_b | Laplace, P.S.de (1818) Deuxième supplément à la Théorie Analytique des Probabilités, Paris, Courcier -- Laplace gives the asymptotic distribution for both mean and median. See also the section on the variance of the median on Wikipedia | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 4:33 | comment | added | Josh Brown Kramer | Do you have a citation? | |
| Feb 6, 2015 at 4:11 | history | answered | Yair Daon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |