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Jan 9, 2023 at 15:49 comment added Nathan G Tilde ∼ means "is sampled from this distribution"
Aug 29, 2022 at 15:34 comment added Nick Cox It's an oddity (to me) that there is nothing like a standard notation for median, but the fact that a tilde over a symbol may be sometimes be used for median, or indeed for other summaries of a variable, has nothing whatsoever to do with this notation.
Aug 29, 2022 at 13:51 history protected kjetil b halvorsen
Aug 29, 2022 at 13:46 comment added Rafaqat In statistics it is used over variable to show the median~X
Jan 15, 2018 at 16:22 history edited kjetil b halvorsen
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May 5, 2013 at 7:27 vote accept jsj
Dec 31, 2012 at 2:50 answer added Ben O'Neill timeline score: 15
Oct 28, 2012 at 1:59 vote accept jsj
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Oct 27, 2012 at 22:41 answer added kjetil b halvorsen timeline score: 23
Oct 27, 2012 at 19:23 comment added Stephan Kolassa @Procrastinator: you should go ahead and submit this as an answer. I don't think it will get any better.
Oct 27, 2012 at 18:06 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/262253950726721537
Oct 27, 2012 at 15:40 comment added user10525 Have a look at point 4 of this entry from Wolfram MathWorld.
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