The median of a random fuzzy number. The 1-norm distance approach (Q1759741)

In classical statistics, it is well known that for estimation of the central tendency of a distribution the sample median is a much more robust statistics than the sample mean. In the present paper, the authors find this (non surprising) property also for random fuzzy numbers (rfn). They define the median of a rfn as a fuzzy number which minimizes a suitable expected 1-norm distance with respect to the rfn and compare empirically and theoretically its robustness with that of Aumann expectation.