Re:Ask HN: Teach me something new
by yshklarov on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:01PM
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> In statistics, the mean and median are both averages, but are technically quite different.
But numerically, they are not too wildly different! The difference between the mean and the median is at most one standard deviation. If the distribution is unimodal, then the difference is at most sqrt(3/5) standard deviations.
But numerically, they are not too wildly different! The difference between the mean and the median is at most one standard deviation. If the distribution is unimodal, then the difference is at most sqrt(3/5) standard deviations.