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6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 September 2015 04:35PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 September 2015 06:46:22PM 0 points [-]

Actually, there's no need for higher central moments. The mean absolute deviation around the mean (which I would have called the first absolute central moment) bounds the difference between mean and median, and is sharper than the standard deviation.