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is very mon and useful measure. To distinguish between the mean for the sample and the mean for the population, we will use the symbol X for a sample mean and μ for a population mean.One measure of central tendency that is not as sensitive to the value of each measurement is the median. The median can be used as a summary measure for ordinal observations as well as for discrete and continuous data. The median is defined as the 50th percentile of a set of measurements。 if a list of observations is ranked from smallest to largest,