In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Cross/Psych Dept/TCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>One of my favorites is "Table Polishing" or "Median Polishing", discussed
>in Tukey & Mosteller's "Green Book", Data Analysis and Regression.
Is the use of the median any faster that the mean and
variance?
It may be marginally the case for completely hand
calculation of VERY SMALL data sets, but even here,
combining samples is a major headache. Depending on the
circumstances, first and second moment methods may or may
not be more robust (in the true sense, not the Huber-Hempel
artificial `definition') than order statistics methods.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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