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There is no widely accepted standard notation for the median, but some authors represent the median of a variable ''x'' either as ''x͂'' or as ''μ''<sub>1/2</sub><ref name="StatisticalMedian" /> sometimes also ''M''.<ref name="Sheskin2003">{{cite book|author=David J. Sheskin|title=Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures: Third Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmwhcJqq01cC&pg=PA7|access-date=25 February 2013|date=27 August 2003|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-3626-8|pages=7–}}</ref><ref name="Bissell1994">{{cite book|author=Derek Bissell|title=Statistical Methods for Spc and Tqm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTwwtyBX7PAC&pg=PA26|access-date=25 February 2013|year=1994|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-39440-9|pages=26–}}</ref> In any of these cases, the use of these or other symbols for the median needs to be explicitly defined when they are introduced. |
There is no widely accepted standard notation for the median, but some authors represent the median of a variable ''x'' either as ''x͂'' or as ''μ''<sub>1/2</sub><ref name="StatisticalMedian" /> sometimes also ''M''.<ref name="Sheskin2003">{{cite book|author=David J. Sheskin|title=Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures: Third Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bmwhcJqq01cC&pg=PA7|access-date=25 February 2013|date=27 August 2003|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-3626-8|pages=7–}}</ref><ref name="Bissell1994">{{cite book|author=Derek Bissell|title=Statistical Methods for Spc and Tqm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTwwtyBX7PAC&pg=PA26|access-date=25 February 2013|year=1994|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-412-39440-9|pages=26–}}</ref> In any of these cases, the use of these or other symbols for the median needs to be explicitly defined when they are introduced. |
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The median is a special case of other [[location parameter|ways of summarizing the typical values associated with a statistical distribution]]: it is the |
The median is a special case of other [[location parameter|ways of summarizing the typical values associated with a statistical distribution]]: it is the 2nd [[quartile]], 5th [[decile]], and 50th [[percentile]]. |
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===Uses=== |
===Uses=== |
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