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Mean, median, mode

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  • J. Th. Runnenburg

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Summary This note is an attempt to avoid doing the same search for the third time. It happened twice in my life that I wished to prove that the median is located between mean and mode for certain B‐distributions: first in 1953, next in 1976. For arbitrary distributions the result is sometimes referred to as Fechner's theorem. Of course it does not hold in general. In order to prove the result for particular distributions one can often use an elegant theorem of Timerding. There is a nice relationship with the standardized third central moment.

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  • J. Th. Runnenburg, 1978. "Mean, median, mode," Statistica Neerlandica, Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research, vol. 32(2), pages 73-79, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:stanee:v:32:y:1978:i:2:p:73-79
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.1978.tb01386.x
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    1. Belkacem Abdous & Bruno Remillard, 1995. "Relating quantiles and expectiles under weighted-symmetry," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Springer;The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, vol. 47(2), pages 371-384, June.

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