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We calculated the median because it is less influenced by outlier values.
We choose the median because it is robust against outliers, like in this case above-average number of singletons.
We also considered modification by age (dichotomized at the median) because it could influence either odor perception or BP reactivity.
The mode is preferred over the mean or median because it eliminates or reduces the effect of outliers (e.g., unusually high estimates resulting from paralogous comparisons).
Of the cutoffs examined, we chose to use the semi-interquartile range from the median because it is robust to outliers, as we did in a previous study of Drosophila duplicate genes.
For instance, in our example data set, ({11, 15, 17, 17, 18, 19, 21, 21, 21}) 18 is the median because it is the middle number - there are exactly four numbers higher than it and four numbers lower than it.
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I am a demographer and always report median income because it gives the middle income.
Here, we use the median value because it is more robust to outliers.
This article adopts the median filter because it efficiently removes transient noise while preserving the slowly varying component in the input signal.
It is difficult to directly visualize the inferior pulmonary vein via median sternotomy because it is blocked by the heart (double line arrow), but the vein can be easily identified by thoracoscopy (single line arrow).
Instead, we used a median filter, because it is the simplest method and it was found to give good results.
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