The average of two complementary order statistics is termed a symmetric quantile average. In addition to having quite good efficiency, robustness and computational properties, exact nonparametric ...
Measurements of the distance between two holes cut into 50 steel sheets are saved as values of the variable DISTANCE in the following data set: data sheets; input distance @@; label distance='Hole ...
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