would someone name some physical or social phenomena where the measurements
follow a Cauchy distribution?
"Anon." wrote:
> Chuck Cleland wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> > If I understand the concept correctly, a consistent statistic is one
> > whose value approaches the population value as the sample size
> > increases. I am looking for examples of statistics that are _not_
> > consistent. The best examples would be statistics that are not
> > computationally complex and could be understood by large and diverse
> > audiences.
>
> How about the universal counterexample, the mean of a Cauchy
> distribution? It's simple if you present it as the ratio of two
> standard normal distributions.
>
> Bob
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> I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you
> looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -
> Poul Anderson
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