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What is a medcouple?
What is a medcouple? I understand that it is the median of a couple of data points but it is not clear to me what these pairs of data actually are. E.g. https://wis.kuleuven.be/stat/robust/papers/2008/...
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Creating groups from an extremely positively skewed population (further explanation + image in text)
Obligatory caveat: Stats neophyte, R neophyte, trying to learn more.
I have daily traffic data for 3k URLs for the entirety of 2016. There is a broad cyclical seasonal trend that the majority of them ...
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Is skewness always bad?
In my experiment, I hypothesised that individuals in one treatment condition would give higher values on a likert scale than individuals in the other treatment condition. It was a one tailed ...
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