REMEDIAN: RATS module to compute the median for large datasets

Eric Blankmeyer ()
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Eric Blankmeyer: Texas State University

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: remedian.src computes the remedian, a median for large data sets. the remedian, which uses a small amount of computer storage, was proposed by Peter J. Rousseeuw and Gilbert W. Bassett, Jr. (1990), "The remedian: a robust averaging method for large data sets," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 85, 97-104. The current version of this program can handle as many as 17^5 = 1,419,857 observations.

Language: RATS
Keywords: descriptive statistics; median (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2000-10-09

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