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From: pamelafluente@libero.it
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Subject: Re: Idempotence and "Replication Insensitivity" are equivalent ?
Date: 26 Sep 2006 07:45:47 -0700
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vc ha scritto:

> Missed that:
>
> pamelafluente@libero.it wrote:
> [...]
> >  For a continuous cdf the median is a
> > point.
>
> Obviously,  that is not always the case.  With a continuous probability
> distribution,  the median of the pdf also may not be unique.

In theory its right. I meant for a cdf with anywhere positive density,
cases of continuous cdf's with density equal to 0 around the median are
actually never seen. Did you ever see them? Hmm, perhaps some mixtures
...

-P