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Estimating parameters of a normal distribution: median instead of mean?
The common approach for estimating the parameters of a normal distribution is to use the mean and the sample standard deviation / variance.
However, if there are some outliers, the median and the ...
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How to use Tukey's Biweight Function to appropriately weight outliers to generate a normal distribution
I am working with a distribution that has outliers beyond 1.5*3rd Qu.. I'm using Shankar, et al. Recommendations for the validation of immunoassays used for ...
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