Medcouple

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A scaled median difference between the two halves of a distribution.

Etymology

From med (“median”) + couple, as the median of a kernel function over pairs ("couples") of data points. The original paper also introduced a similar concept medtriple that has not seen wide use.

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