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14.2 Do Two Distributions Have the Same Means or Variances? 615 that this is wasteful, since it yields much more information than just the median (e.g., the upper and lower quartile points, the deciles, etc.). In fact, we saw in §8.5 that the element x (N +1)/2 can be located in of order N operations. Consult that section for routines. The mode of a probability distribution function p (x) is the value of x where it takes on a maximum value. The mode is useful primarily when there is a single, sharp h r P C S t e t a e o a maximum, in which case it estimates the central value. Occasionally, a distribution p d r p m : m y / a p / i r w b s i l will be bimodal, with two relative maxima; then one may wish to know the two w l s g e e i h p w f o t a