EXAMPLE 1.30 Skewed Density Curves

It isn—t so easy to spot the equal-areas point on a skewed curve. There are mathematical ways of finding the median for any density curve. We did that to mark the median on the skewed curve in Figure 1.18(b).

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Figure 1.20: FIGURE 1.18(b) The mean and the median for a right-skewed density curve, Example 1.30.