The median is the message : toward the Fréchet median
Journal de la Société française de statistique, Tome 147 (2006) no. 2, pp. 61-64.
complète Sur une limitation très générale de la dispersion de la médiane 
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Koenker, Roger. The median is the message : toward the Fréchet median. Journal de la Société française de statistique, Tome 147 (2006) no. 2, pp. 61-64. http://archive.numdam.org/item/JSFS_2006__147_2_61_0/

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