Which "mean" to use and when? - Cross Validated
So we have arithmetic mean (AM), geometric mean (GM) and harmonic mean (HM). Their mathematical formulation is also well known along with their associated stereotypical …
What is implied by standard deviation being much larger than the …
What does it imply for standard deviation being more than twice the mean? Our data is timing data from event durations and so strictly positive. (Sometimes very small negatives show up …
Which is better, replacement by mean and replacement by median?
Mar 27, 2015 · Replacement by mean or median --- or mode -- is in effect saying that you have no information on what a missing value might be. It is hard to know why imputation is though to …
How do I interpret mean absolute error (MAE) or mean absolute ...
Apr 29, 2020 · For example, I am predicting a score that can have value from 0 to 100. Lets assume MAPE = 10 for one case. In other case MAE = 10. How can I interpret it in layman …
mean - Is Median Absolute Percentage Error useless? - Cross …
Nov 20, 2022 · I'm working on a project focused on pricing houses. Looking online I see a lot of works and companies providing the performances of their model using the median instead of …
mean - Is it correct to use plus or minus symbol before standard ...
Apr 21, 2015 · I have represented standard deviation as "±SD" before in publications. But I like to have opinions on this. Is it appropriate to use the notation '±' with SD ? Or ...
How to calculate `mean` and `sd` of lognormal distribution based …
May 29, 2020 · Lognormal distribution as below: estimate meanlog 6.0515 sdlog 0.3703 How to calculate the mean and sd of this distribution?
Mean absolute deviation vs. standard deviation - Cross Validated
Jan 13, 2014 · After calculating the "sum of absolute deviations" or the "square root of the sum of squared deviations", you average them to get the "mean deviation" and the "standard …
Why is median age a better statistic than mean age?
Oct 22, 2013 · People of such age have 1.5 to 4 times the influence on the mean than they do on the median compared to very young people. Thus, the median is a bit more up-to-date statistic …
mean - "Averaging" variances - Cross Validated
May 6, 2017 · I need to obtain some sort of "average" among a list of variances, but have trouble coming up with a reasonable solution. There is an interesting discussion about the differences …