problem here is that there is NO agreed to operational definition of the
mode ... and if that is the case, difficult to find a variance around it(them)
At 10:06 PM 12/4/00 -0600, Alireza Tahai wrote:
>Hello,
>Would you answer the following two questions,
>1) I know the variance of mean and median. What is the variance of mode?
>2) Under what condition we can say mode is a better estimate of population
>average than mean or median. For example, when the distribution of a
>variable is Gamma, then mean, median or mode which one is a better estimate
>for population average. Thank you in advance. A. Tahai
>
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