The smallest uniform upper bound on the distance between the mean and the median of the binomial and Poisson distributions

We show that for the binomial and Poisson distributions, the distance between the mean and the median is always less than ln 2.

Year of publication:	1995
Authors:	Hamza, Kais
Published in:	Statistics & Probability Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7152. - Vol. 23.1995, 1, p. 21-25
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Median Binomial distribution Poisson distribution

Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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