I. noun
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For continuous variables medians were used because the results lacked normal distribution.
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One other possible method of smoothing would be to use means rather than medians.
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The median is not the mid-point between the first number and the last.
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The median was $ 1, 375, 000 and the top award was $ 7. 75 million.
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The base category acts in analogous manner to the fitted median with interval level data.
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The values in table I are medians, and the quoted statistics clearly show the lack of significant difference.
II. adjective
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age
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The relatively small difference in median age between the patients and the control subjects is unlikely to be important.
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The estimated median age of marriage has continued to rise over the past quarter century.
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There were 24 women and 16 men with a median age of 76 years.
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By 1993, the median age for women was 24. 5 and for men, 26. 5.
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These effects can hardly explain a shift in median age from 55 years to 63 years in only a decade, however.
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But today the median age is 42.
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In Britain the median age will rise from 36 years now to 41 in 2020.
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The median age of the 28, 000-plus permanent residents is a vigorous 44.
duration
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Oesophagitis was treated with omeprazole 40 mg/day for a median duration of 12 weeks.
family
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The median family income of blacks is just 56% of that of whites.
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And Chapman University economists say median family income has risen well above $ 60, 000 a year.
household
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The median household price in Chula Vista is $ 158, 000, meaning about $ 94 extra a year in taxes.
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Nationally, the 1990 median household income was $ 36, 915 for whites and $ 21, 423 for blacks.
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The costs, which were not adjusted for inflation, outstripped median household incomes over the same period by 152 percentage points.
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The median household income for San Francisco area residents was $ 66, 900 last year.
income
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The danger is that the younger people with below median incomes actually have lower incomes than older people with below median incomes.
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The lowest median income for home buyers was $ 52, 900 in Cleveland.
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The danger is that the younger people with below median incomes actually have lower incomes than older people with below median incomes.
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By contrast, the median income of those with IRAs, savings and pension plans is $ 44, 500.
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It can be seen that the lone elderly had the lowest median income levels and also the most restricted range of income.
number
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The median number identified per child was five, with a wide variation from zero to 29.
serum
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There were no significant differences in the median serum amylase and lipase values between the treatment groups.
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There were no significant differences between the median serum IGFBP-1 and insulin concentrations in well grown compared with stunted patients.
survival
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Those patients who present with metastatic disease and are treated with maximal endocrine treatment will have a median survival of 36 months.
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Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong the median survival time.
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After the development of lymph node metastases and distant metastases, median survival of patients declined significantly.
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The median survival of a year or more with symptoms controlled in most of those treated represents a very satisfactory outcome.
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Complete response is rare, and the improvement in median survival seems small.
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Ultimately biliary cirrhosis results and the median survival has been estimated to be 12 years.
time
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The median time for return to employment was 18 days.
value
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The plot gives median values and interquartile ranges across all families.
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Among those who do, Federal Reserve Board researchers found, the median value of those accounts in 1995&038;.
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Men had a median value of 124 percent, compared with 109 percent for women.
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Data are expressed as median values and ranges.
voter
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In Fig. 11-10 the D curve is the demand curve of the median voter for the locally provided good.
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The wage is set by the union executive to maximize the expected utility of the median voter .
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In Fig. 11-9 are illustrated the preferences of the median voter over a private good and the local public good.
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In this case we have the simple result that the preferences of the median voter are decisive.
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The median voter model can be applied directly to yield predictions about the determinants of public expenditure.
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Any such level of output will put the median voter on a higher indifference curve than would the reversion level.
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If the reversion level is, the median voter may vote for an output of almost.
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We therefore explicitly model the union wage-setting process in a median voter framework.
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Among those who do, Federal Reserve Board researchers found, the median value of those accounts in 1995&.
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Any such level of output will put the median voter on a higher indifference curve than would the reversion level.
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Preoperative radiotherapy did not prolong the median survival time.
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The median age of the patients is 54 and men are affected twice as often as women.
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The median clearance time of newly acquired human papillomavirus was 6 months.
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The median voter model can be applied directly to yield predictions about the determinants of public expenditure.
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Those patients who present with metastatic disease and are treated with maximal endocrine treatment will have a median survival of 36 months.