Teaching the Median with Terms of Absolute Value, Differentiability, and Optimization

The verbal definition of the sample median sounds a bit strange in the early Statistics courses in the context of being non-mathematical or non-functional. It is also interesting that estimators based on an analytical calculation such as the sample mean are equally strange, but not seen as strange b...

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Main Author: Mehmet Hakan Satman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istanbul University 2022-06-01
Series:Alphanumeric Journal
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Online Access: http://alphanumericjournal.com/media/Issue/volume-10-issue-1-2022/teaching-the-median-with-terms-of-absolute-value-differenti_IixT2K7.pdf

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