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Re: My average set
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lugnet.loc.au
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Date:
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:35:49 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Michael Dallaston wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.au, Matthew Wightwick wrote:
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- I actually do own my mean set, but not my median set!
- I only got my 6 modal sets just over a week ago. Before that, my modal set was 7124, of which I own 3.
- I’m afraid I had to think for a second about what ‘median’ actually meant. What can I say? Stats was never my strong suit.
-Matthew Wightwick, B.E.(Chem)/B.Sc.(Hons)
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I’m confoosled. How can you not own your median set?
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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).
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I realised this about 30 seconds after posting... just had one of those moments
I guess.
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Cool, huh?
(And I came up with a pirate set!!)
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So it’s true, you can make the data say whatever you want!
Michael
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) 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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| | Re: My average set
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| (...) 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)
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