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Mean, median, and skew

A typical heuristic is that positively skewed distributions have mean > median. This is true for all members of the Pearson distribution family. However this is not always true. For example, the Weibull distribution family has members with positive mean, but mean < median. Violations of the rule are particularly common for discrete distributions. For example, any Poisson distribution has positive skew, but its mean < median whenever μ mod 1 > ln 2 {\displaystyle \mu {\bmod {1}}>\ln 2}. See for a proof sketch.

When the distribution has a monotonically decreasing probability density, then the median is less than the mean, as shown in the figure.