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Use of One Instead of Two Observations

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Use of One Instead of Two Observations

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Use of One Instead of Two Observations
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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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