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mgfortes
 Post subject: I need a decider
PostPosted: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 06:14:44 UTC 
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I'm having a debate with my roommate.

In short my roommate stated in a statistics homework assignment that chebychev's theorem supported a claim that a particular distribution was a skewed distribution. I do not think it's possible to derive any conclusion about a distribution's graphical shape using chebychev's. Would anyone care to speculate? Thanks

MF

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a=b
ab=b^2
ab-a^2=b^2-a^2
a(b-a)=(b+a)(b-a)
a=b+a
a=2a
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 Post subject: Re: I need a decider
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mgfortes wrote:
I'm having a debate with my roommate.

In short my roommate stated in a statistics homework assignment that chebychev's theorem supported a claim that a particular distribution was a skewed distribution. I do not think it's possible to derive any conclusion about a distribution's graphical shape using chebychev's. Would anyone care to speculate? Thanks

MF


Chebyshev's inequality (one- or two-sided) doesn't tell you anything about skewness. And it is a pretty crude bound.

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 Post subject: Re: I need a decider
PostPosted: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:48:53 UTC 
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The usual form of Chebychev's Inequality only requires two moments of the distribution, so it is valid even if a distribution does not have higher moments. And yes, it's a crude bound because it has to work for any distribution with a finite variance.

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