Timeline for Why is median age a better statistic than mean age?
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| Sep 18, 2010 at 12:53 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | @Rob: @nico: I'm sure you're right. It was a poor choice of example. Typically we model pharmacometric parameters like volume and clearance. | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 23:08 | comment | added | nico | I do not think you can infer age is log-normally distributed just from the fact that it is always positive. The gamma and the Weibull distributions are also always positive, so why not choosing those ones? | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 0:51 | comment | added | Rob Hyndman | The distribution of age is certainly not log normal. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 0:23 | history | answered | Mike Dunlavey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |