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The median is the middle number in a sorted, ascending or descending, list of numbers and can be more descriptive of that data set than the average. The median is sometimes used as opposed to the mean when there are outliers in the sequence that might skew the average of the values.
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anyone else a highly trained programmer/mathematician/statistician
and still googling this shit?
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For all you programmers, get you data into an array, and sort it. The median is the element at the center of the array, or length / 2.
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a median is a value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as "the middle" value.