3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
4:53 p.m.
My friend Richard Harter redefined my median in what may be a nicer way:
We use the sum of absolute distances function,
f(x) = sum(abs(x-x_i))
and find the set of x's such f(x) is a minimum. All of these are valid medians; however the centroid of the set is in some sense the most central median.
--Steve