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Finding mode using mean and skewness (and higher moments)?
I have a pdf that doesn't yield trivial derivatives, so I cannot differentiate it and find the root to determine where its max exactly occurs.
However, I have a general formula to express all its ...
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Name for the special estimate of the mean
During my masters studies, I heard about the following estimate of the mean: We take the minimal and the maximal value from sample and simply average them out.
Does this estimate have any name? And ...
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