Medians

(Grouped data)
 MEANING OF
MEDIAN
Median is the middle most value of the observations when
the observations are either arranged in increasing or
decreasing order.
The median is 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 [1] [2] (the median of {3, 5, 7, 9} is (5 + 7) / 2
= 6), which corresponds to interpreting the median as the
fully trimmed mid-range.
 THE MEDIAN OF A
G R O U P E D D ATA

=XLB +

Where = median

XLB =the lower boundary or true lower limit of the median class

N = total frequency

cf b = cumulative frequency before the median class

fm = frequency of the median class

i = size of the class interval

Class Interval f <cf

28-29 1 60
26-27 3 59
24-25 3 56
22-23 3 53
20-21 6 50
18-19 6 44
16-17 8 38
14-15 6 30
12-13 10 24
10-11 14 14
N = 60