Learn in the textbookDescriptive Statistics (Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion)
DefinitionIn Japanese, the median also appears as the loanword メジアン, another name for 中央値 that refers to exactly the same value.
ExplanationStatistical materials in Japan use the native term 中央値 and the loanword メジアン interchangeably. The calculation is also the same as for 中央値: sort the values by size and take the one in the middle.
Memory hookThe English word median means "in the middle," and the strip dividing a highway is also called the median.