Evaluate the effectiveness of swindles for computing the variance of the median of five random variables from the N ormal(θ , σ2) distribution. Compare the direct approach with the first swindle’s...

Evaluate the effectiveness of swindles for computing the variance of the median of five random variables from the N ormal(θ , σ2) distribution. Compare the direct approach with the first swindle’s σ2/n + K−1 K k=1 Tk − Y k 2 and the second swindle’s σ2/n + K−1 K k=1  T 2 k − Y 2 k  .