Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

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Relationship Between the Mean and Median in a Skewed Frequency Distribution

  • Shin, Mi-Young (Department of Mathematics, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Cho, Tae Kyoung (Department of Statistics and Information Science, Dongguk University)
  • Published : 2004.12.01
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Abstract

The well-known mode-mean-median inequality for the unimodal population distribution does not always hold for the frequency distribution. But many elementary statistics text books just mention that the relative location of the mean and median can be used to determine whether a distribution is positively or negatively skewed. In this paper we introduce the method generating data that is positively skewed but mean

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