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Dropping Scores  

This is an article in Mathematics Magazine (1995) that is included in Classroom Capsules and Notes. From the summary, "Dropping the smallest or largest in a finite set of numbers does not necessarily lower the variance."

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Subject classification(s): Statistics and Probability | Probability | Elementary Probability

Creator(s): Stephen R. Shalom

Contributor(s): Stephen R. Shalom

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