shorth

English

Etymology

short +‎ -th

Noun

shorth (plural shorths)

1. (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).