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On central tendency and dispersion measures for intervals and hypercubes

Computation 2008-12-18 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

The uncertainty or the variability of the data may be treated by considering, rather than a single value for each data, the interval of values in which it may fall. This paper studies the derivation of basic description statistics for interval-valued datasets. We propose a geometrical approach in the determination of summary statistics (central tendency and dispersion measures) for interval-valued variables.

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@article{arxiv.0804.2247,
  title  = {On central tendency and dispersion measures for intervals and hypercubes},
  author = {Marie Chavent and Jérôme Saracco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2247},
  year   = {2008}
}
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