The Cauchy distribution’s counter-intuitive behavior
The Endeavour 2024-09-19
Summary:
Someone with no exposure to probability or statistics likely has an intuitive sense that averaging random variables reduces variance, though they wouldn’t state it in those terms. They might, for example, agree that the average of several test grades gives a better assessment of a student than a single test grade. But data from a […]
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