Re: Idempotence and "Replication Insensitivity" are equivalent ?

Phil Carmody wrote:
> pamelafluente_at_libero.it writes:
> > the Median is the value which minimize the sum of absolute differences
> >
> > ie. sum | xi - c | is minimum for c = MEDIAN()
>
> If I were Bob Silverman, you'd get one heck of a flaming for
> posting something so obviously somewhere in between unintelligible
> and meaningless (including both endpoints) to sci.math.

Are saying that the median does not have the property that it minimizes the sum of absolute deviations ?

>
> Phil
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Received on Sat Sep 23 2006 - 11:41:47 CDT