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Re:How percentile approximation works and why it's more usef... by djk447 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:35PM (#28528045)
Totally true...thoughts on how I could rephrase? I guess it's more the "weight" of points greater than and less than the median should be the same, so symmetric distributions definitely have it, asymmetric may or may not. Definitely open to revising...
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Re:How percentile approximation works and why it's more usef... by pdpi on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:41PM (#28528116)
> symmetric distributions definitely have it, asymmetric may or may not

Doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. It's more a curio than an important point anyway :)

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