Quantitative Concept
median Audio
me·di·an [ mee-dee-uhn ]
Definitions related to median statistical measurement:
  • (median) A statistics term. The middle value in a set of measurements.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (median) The median of all non-null values in the referenced set of values.
    NCI Health Level 7 Vocabulary
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
  • (median) The middle value in a data set; that is, just as many values are greater than the median and lower than the median value. (With an even number of values, the conventional median is halfway between the two middle values.)
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • (median) The value which has an equal number of values greater and less than it.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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