Median vs. Tertile

Mediannoun

A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.

Mediannoun

(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.

Mediannoun

(statistics) The number separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.

Mediannoun

(US) The median strip; the area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.

Medianadjective

Situated in the middle; central, intermediate.

Medianadjective

In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.

Medianadjective

(statistics) Having the median as its value.

Medianadjective

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

Medianadjective

Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; - said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.

Mediannoun

A median line or point.

Mediannoun

the value below which 50% of the cases fall

Medianadjective

relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in an even-numbered set);

Medianadjective

dividing an animal into right and left halves

Medianadjective

relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

Median

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 value.

Tertilenoun

(statistics) Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.

Tertilenoun

(statistics) Any one of the three groups so divided.