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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Mar. 2 - Mar. 8, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 02 March 2015 08:10:25PM 1 point [-]

I don't see how it's different than the mode

Think about a bimodal distribution, for example. But in any case, we're talking about M-estimates, weren't we?