Almost every American has some degree of metabolic dysfunction — at least that’s what President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general would say. Dr. Casey Means, a graduate of the Stanford School of ...

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It's curious --and unfortunate-- that the symbol for emphasis became the symbol for negation. Granted, ASCII isn't the richest glyph set, and coders needed something, but why settle on the symbol that means in prose the exact opposite of what it means in code? Irony? Mean of means, or median of medians, or median of means or mean of medians generates bias (mainly because small country or big country have exactly same impact on the result).

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When you work with incomes, data are not symetric (Pareto phenomen), and median is always less than mean. As long as you are totally conscious of what you do, with the limitations, step by step, you can do what you want. I have seen some other posts related to using the ratio of means vs. the mean of ratios, but I'm still confused about some things and hoping to get a little more clarity. First, from what I've read...

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What does double vertical-line means in linear algebra? Ask Question Asked 12 years, 4 months ago Modified 9 years, 3 months ago What do the less-than and greater-than symbols right next to each other mean? Does it mean either less than or greater than? In other words, not equal? I am trying to understand a book that says th... average - More details on ratio of means vs.

mean of ratios ... I know $\\mathbb{Z}_2$ is the set of all integers modulo $2$. But $\\mathbb{Z}_2[x]$ is the set of all polynomials. I am confused what it looks like.