Robert J. MacG. Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Wuensch, Karl L wrote:
How about simply using the M.A.D.? No, not the mad spouse who noticed
she
was getting short-shrimped, rather the mean absolute deviation of
individual
shrimp from the mean of
I just ate a bowl full of shrimp. I took out two at
a time, shelled them, dipped the larger one in horseradish and ate it, reserving
the smaller one for my spouse. If I had the weight of each shrimp in the
bowl, what simple statistic would be a good estimate of themean difference
between
. WuenschSent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:25
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: shrimp
statistics
I just ate a bowl full of shrimp. I took out two
at a time, shelled them, dipped the larger one in horseradish and ate it,
reserving the smaller one for my spouse. If I had the weight of each
