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allan clark

2005-07-19

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for the stats gurus

does anyone know if there exists a general formula relating the median
of a continuous distribution to its moments. the distribution could be
skewed or symmetric and is definitely not normal.

the reason for asking is since the median of the particular distribution
that i am interested in is difficult (probably impossible) to obtain.
the median depends depends on an incomplete gamma distribution. the
moments however can be obtained fairly easily.

/
allan
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