Median

prefLabel
  • Median
definition
  • The measure of central tendency of a set of n. values computed by ordering the values and taking the value at position (n. + 1) / 2 when n. is odd or the arithmetic mean of the values at positions n. / 2 and (n. / 2) + 1 when n. is even.
topConceptOf
inScheme
closeMatch
Abstract from DBPedia
    In statistics and probability theory, the median is the 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. The basic feature of the median in describing data compared to the mean (often simply described as the "average") is that it is not skewed by a small proportion of extremely large or small values, and therefore provides a better representation of a "typical" value. Median income, for example, may be a better way to suggest what a "typical" income is, because income distribution can be very skewed. The median is of central importance in robust statistics, as it is the most resistant statistic, having a breakdown point of 50%: so long as no more than half the data are contaminated, the median is not an arbitrarily large or small result.

    中央値(ちゅうおうち、英: median)あるいはメジアン、メディアンとは、データや集合の代表値の一つで、順位が中央である値のことである。ただし、データの大きさが偶数の場合は、中央順位2個の値の算術平均をとる。 中間値の定理の「中間値」はこの中央値の意味とは異なる。 例えば5人の年齢10歳、32歳、96歳、100歳、105歳からなるデータの中央値は、順位が上からも下からも3である96(歳)となる。0歳の子供が2人増えて7人になると、中央値は32歳となる。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Median)