Median vs. Tertile
Difference Between Median and Tertile
Mediannoun
A central vein or nerve, especially the median vein or median nerve running through the forearm and arm.
Tertilenoun
(statistics) Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.
Mediannoun
(geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
Tertilenoun
(statistics) Any one of the three groups so divided.
The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.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.
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);
the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20the median income for the year was $15,000Medianadjective
dividing an animal into right and left halves
Medianadjective
relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
