Some stylized questions (e.g., How many hours per week do you usually work?) might capture the mode, instead of the mean, of work time.
Statistical physics suggests to compute the expectation with respect to this Gibbs measure (the posterior mean in the synchronization problem), by minimizing the so-called Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) free energy, instead of the mean field (MF) free energy.
For a coaxial heat exchanger this paper develops an analytical model for the vertical temperature profiles, which can be used instead of the mean temperature approximation to estimate borehole resistance.
Results reveal the extremely nonuniform cross-sectional concentration distribution, and demonstrate that concentration at the bed instead of the mean should be used for reliable quantification of the absorption flux.
The phenomenon of job polarisation is also robust to the use of the median instead of the mean.
The DSIHE method also used a similar approach to enhance the image contrast, except applying the median value instead of the mean value.
To do so, they proposed the use of the median instead of the mean as a better performance metric because it is more robust to outliers.
We collect statistical data for 149 routes and choose the median instead of the mean as a descriptor of the data because the distribution is quite skewed.
Instead of the mean value, the last satisfied pixel intensity (preserved when a pixel satisfies a model) may be taken as the background pixel intensity to avoid an artificial mean value [16].
If stand age was used instead of the mean basal tree area as the longitudinal covariate (Eq. 7.1) there is a clear decrease in the model accuracy for all tree species.
The k-medians algorithm uses the median instead of the mean as the centre of the derived clusters and is therefore better in dealing with outliers in the data.
