The smallest uniform upper bound on the distance between the mean and the median of the binomial and Poisson distributions
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- R. Kaas & J.M. Buhrman, 1980. "Mean, Median and Mode in Binomial Distributions," Statistica Neerlandica, Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research, vol. 34(1), pages 13-18, March.
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Median Binomial distribution Poisson distribution;Statistics
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