Van Zwet Condition
Van Zwet derived an inequality which provides sufficient conditions for this inequality to hold. The inequality
- Mode ≤ Median ≤ Mean
holds if
- F( Median - x ) + F( Median + x ) ≥ 1
for all x where F is the cumulative distribution function of the distribution.
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