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Stat 5101 Lecture Notes - School of Statistics

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184 <strong>Stat</strong> <strong>5101</strong> (Geyer) Course <strong>Notes</strong>Pro<strong>of</strong>. What we need to show is that if m is a median, that is, ifand a is any real number, thenP (X ≤ m) ≥ 1 2and P (X ≥ m) ≥ 1 2E(|X − a|) ≥ E(|X − m|).Without loss <strong>of</strong> generality, we may suppose a>m. (The case a = m is trivial.The case a

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