Well, sure, but that's only a statistical sample and its mean will be at best an approximation to the mean of the real distribution. In this case, a very bad approximation!
Hmmm. I guess it's possible they could deduce what distribution it was, and fill in the parameters from the data. But then surely anyone would send the formula? I assumed the original question was implicitly statistical in nature...
That is true. I could at least have arranged for it to be bimodal. However, it's rather difficult to avoid having a median...
Yeah... "Well, this week, two jobs were placed in time Δ, one in time ♣, one only after , and three had already been advertised for ⇑ months and remained unfilled, for a total median waiting time of E_INCOMPARABLE..." :)
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Date: 2007-02-21 04:45 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I guess it's possible they could deduce what distribution it was, and fill in the parameters from the data. But then surely anyone would send the formula? I assumed the original question was implicitly statistical in nature...
That is true. I could at least have arranged for it to be bimodal. However, it's rather difficult to avoid having a median...
Yeah... "Well, this week, two jobs were placed in time Δ, one in time ♣, one only after , and three had already been advertised for ⇑ months and remained unfilled, for a total median waiting time of E_INCOMPARABLE..." :)