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    Re: My average set —Michael Dallaston
   (...) I'm confoosled. How can you not own your median set? Unless it means something other than what thought it meant... Michael (only an undergrad :( ) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
   
        Re: My average set —Michael Dallaston
     (...) Oh wait... I see. plz ignore me :P (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
   
        Re: My average set —Richie Dulin
   (...) Easy! Have an even number of sets, and not have a multiple that set spans the midpoint. (If there is no midpoint you take the average of the two around the midpoint). (...) If you had a collection which consisted of ten copies each of: (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
   
        Re: My average set —Ross Crawford
     (...) Bah! Anyone can do that!!! BTW after re-evaluating, I must amend my stats - my modal set is now [LEGOSet 9936] A significant portion of which are utilised (URL) here>. This may also mean my average & median are wrong, but I can't be bothered (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
   
        Re: My average set —Michael Dallaston
   (...) I realised this about 30 seconds after posting... just had one of those moments I guess. (...) So it's true, you can make the data say whatever you want! Michael (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
   
        Re: My average set —Richie Dulin
   (...) I think you emphasised the wrong word in that sentence. Try: "So it's true, you can make the data say whatever you want!" ;-) Cheers Richie Dulin Statistician of .loc.au (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
 

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