This article was originally published on Built In by Eric Kleppen. Variance is a powerful statistic used in data analysis and machine learning. It is one of the four main measures of variability along ...

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In this paper, some properties of the asymptotic variance of the sample quantiles and the derived mid-ranges are studied and the role of the sample median is critically discussed. It is shown that ...