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Medcouple, a Common card
In statistics, the medcouple is a robust statistic that measures the skewness of a univariate distribution.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 2,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Medcouple quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Medcouple card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Its ______ makes it suitable for identifying outliers in adjusted boxplots.
Answer
robustness. Its robustness makes it suitable for identifying outliers in adjusted boxplots. From the Medcouple article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election. 2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council election 79 · Principles of intelligent urbanism 76 · June 2020 Pennsylvania–New Jersey derecho 72 · Medcouple 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Nikolay Zelinsky. Nikolay Zelinsky 4,500 · Actinides in the environment 3,100 · Medcouple 2,000 · Ferranti F100-L 1,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is defined as a scaled median difference between the left and right half of a distribution.
- Its robustness makes it suitable for identifying outliers in adjusted boxplots.
- Ordinary box plots do not fare well with skew distributions, since they label the longer unsymmetrical tails as outliers.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Medcouple article was read about 2,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Medcouple
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- June 2020 Pennsylvania–New Jersey derechoCommon · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 52
- 2023 Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council electionCommon · History · ATK 79 DEF 45
- Oregon Rail Heritage FoundationCommon · Society · ATK 68 DEF 56
- International School of ToulouseCommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 60
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Prince George's County, MarylandCommon · Science · ATK 77 DEF 47
- Jaxa of KöpenickCommon · History · ATK 65 DEF 59
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Medcouple (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
