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English
Etymology
Abbreviation of "shortest half"[1]
Noun
shorth (plural shorths)
- (statistics) The shortest interval containing a specified fraction (typically a half) of a distribution
2009 January 25, Wu Wei Zhenyu Xu et al., “Bidirectional promoters generate pervasive transcription in yeast”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7232, →DOI, pages 1033–1037:To estimate the mode of a (distance) distribution, we used the midpoint of the shorth (the shortest interval that covers half the values).
References
- ^ Robust estimates of location: survey and advances (1972) Princeton University Press, pp. 6, 26, 27