Simple stats question that I can't find an easy way to google. Suppose I have a survey question, and have the median response, the number of people who answered, and the total number of people in the population (say 1.1, 15, 200), but not the sd. Can I calculate an error bound?
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Replying to @turrible_tao @marquezxavier and
Error bounds on a median depend on the variance in the data set. So if something about the variable itself could let you bound the variance (say, it only goes from 1 to 5) then you could bound the median, but probably not by much
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Replying to @nickchk @turrible_tao and
booooooooooooooootstrap probably
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Replying to @eigenrobot @nickchk and
to bootstrap you need the individual data points, but it sounds like we only have some summary statistics instead
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at some point I forgot to read the question and "bootstrap" is my default answer for everythinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1283169148780986369?s=19 …
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