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  2. Median of medians - Wikipedia

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    Firstly, computing median of an odd list is faster and simpler; while one could use an even list, this requires taking the average of the two middle elements, which is slower than simply selecting the single exact middle element. Secondly, five is the smallest odd number such that median of medians works.

  3. Selection algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The median of medians method partitions the input into sets of five elements, and uses some other non-recursive method to find the median of each of these sets in constant time per set. It then recursively calls itself to find the median of these n / 5 {\displaystyle n/5} medians.

  4. List of unsolved problems in statistics - Wikipedia

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    The notable unsolved problems in statistics are generally of a different flavor; according to John Tukey, [1] "difficulties in identifying problems have delayed statistics far more than difficulties in solving problems." A list of "one or two open problems" (in fact 22 of them) was given by David Cox. [2]

  5. Median - Wikipedia

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    As a median is based on the middle data in a set, it is not necessary to know the value of extreme results in order to calculate it. For example, in a psychology test investigating the time needed to solve a problem, if a small number of people failed to solve the problem at all in the given time a median can still be calculated. [6]

  6. Median test - Wikipedia

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    Median test (also Mood’s median-test, Westenberg-Mood median test or Brown-Mood median test) is a special case of Pearson's chi-squared test. It is a nonparametric test that tests the null hypothesis that the medians of the populations from which two or more samples are drawn are identical. The data in each sample are assigned to two groups ...

  7. Median absolute deviation - Wikipedia

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    The median absolute deviation is a measure of statistical dispersion. Moreover, the MAD is a robust statistic , being more resilient to outliers in a data set than the standard deviation . In the standard deviation, the distances from the mean are squared, so large deviations are weighted more heavily, and thus outliers can heavily influence it.

  8. Lists of statistics topics - Wikipedia

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    List of fields of application of statistics; List of graphical methods; List of statistical software. Comparison of statistical packages; List of graphing software; Comparison of Gaussian process software; List of stochastic processes topics; List of matrices used in statistics; Timeline of probability and statistics; List of unsolved problems ...

  9. Hodges–Lehmann estimator - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the Hodges–Lehmann estimator is a robust and nonparametric estimator of a population's location parameter.For populations that are symmetric about one median, such as the Gaussian or normal distribution or the Student t-distribution, the Hodges–Lehmann estimator is a consistent and median-unbiased estimate of the population median.