Yıl: 2022 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 41 - 50 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138 İndeks Tarihi: 10-08-2022

Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization

Öz:
The verbal definition of the sample median sounds a bit strange in the early Statistics courses in the context of being non-mathematical or non-functional. It is also interesting that estimators based on an analytical calculation such as the sample mean are equally strange, but not seen as strange by the students as the median estimator. In this study, we have expanded the studies on teaching the sample median with its optimization definitions. We have also shown that such definitions provide a natural way of understanding the sample median in multivariate case and regression analysis. Seeing that statistical estimators, from the simplest to the most complex, are obtained as a solution to an optimization problem can pave the way for other types of insights.
Anahtar Kelime: Teaching statistics optimization absolute value median

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APA Satman M (2022). Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. , 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
Chicago Satman Mehmet Hakan Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. (2022): 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
MLA Satman Mehmet Hakan Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. , 2022, ss.41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
AMA Satman M Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. . 2022; 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
Vancouver Satman M Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. . 2022; 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
IEEE Satman M "Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization." , ss.41 - 50, 2022. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
ISNAD Satman, Mehmet Hakan. "Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization". (2022), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
APA Satman M (2022). Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. Alphanumeric Journal, 10(1), 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
Chicago Satman Mehmet Hakan Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. Alphanumeric Journal 10, no.1 (2022): 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
MLA Satman Mehmet Hakan Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. Alphanumeric Journal, vol.10, no.1, 2022, ss.41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
AMA Satman M Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. Alphanumeric Journal. 2022; 10(1): 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
Vancouver Satman M Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization. Alphanumeric Journal. 2022; 10(1): 41 - 50. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
IEEE Satman M "Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization." Alphanumeric Journal, 10, ss.41 - 50, 2022. 10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138
ISNAD Satman, Mehmet Hakan. "Teaching the median with terms of absolute value, differentiability, and optimization". Alphanumeric Journal 10/1 (2022), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.17093/alphanumeric.1041138