Robust measures of scale
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Robust measures of scale
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In statistics, robust measures of scale are methods that quantify the statistical dispersion in a sample of numerical data while resisting outliers. The most common such robust statistics are the interquartile range (IQR) and the median absolute deviation (MAD). These are contrasted with conventional or non-robust measures of scale, such as sample standard deviation, which are greatly influenced by outliers. These robust statistics are particularly used as estimators of a scale parameter, and ha
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Statistical indicators of the deviation of a sample
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