Use of One Instead of Two Observations
Use of One Instead of Two Observations
RR84-04
Abstract
The use of a single sample observation to estimate the center of a (symmetric) distribution can be, in important senses, preferable to the use of the mean/median/midrange of a sample of 2.
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