【正文】
half the values are greater than or equal to the median, where the other half are less than or equal to it. Therefore, if a set of date contains a total of n observations where n is odd, the median is the meddle value, or the[(n+1)/2]th largest measurement。 if n is even, the median is usually taken to the average of the two middlemost values, the(n/2)th and[(n/2)+1]th observations.Although both the mean and the median are good measures of the center of the population, the median is less sensitive to the extreme values or outliers