medcouple
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From med (“median”) + couple, as the median of a kernel function over pairs ("couples") of data points. The original paper also introduced a similar concept medtriple that has not seen wide use.[1]
Noun
[edit]medcouple (plural medcouples)
- (statistics) A scaled median difference between the two halves of a distribution.