[RsR] Case where options in mad() seemingly have no effect

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> John Buggeln 
>>>>>     on Wed, 2 Jul 2025 12:14:12 -0400 writes:

    > This was clarifying, thank you for your response.
    > A suggestion for the help file would be to specify which median the low/high options effect. E.g., 

    > "if TRUE, compute the ‘lo-median’ of the absolute deviations, i.e., for even sample size, do not average the two middle values, but take the smaller one.”

    > Best,

    > John Buggeln, MS
    > PhD Candidate
    > University of Delaware


Ok, thank you.
I now have added something like your proposal to R's sources
help file for mad()  [ <Rsrc>/src/library/stats/man/mad.Rd ;
svn rev 88376

Best,
Martin


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