If all this, our stalled-on-the-shoulder, floorboard love, amounts to more than heat-waves or jerky strips, I'll quit talking about the architecture of Quik Trips and I'll plan a moon pie in the median and when we return next May to see its wet, alien stalks, I'll wonder at the days we've seen, Jesus, baby, the days that we have seen.
17 Briefly, when the mean was not reported we used the median; when standard deviations could not be estimated, we adopted the standard deviation from the most similar study.
For NRC, we observe a broad distribution with median = 0.64 when we measure SIs between Kn and Kns, and with median = 0.73 when we measure SIs between Ks and Ksn.
We did not report the 50th percentile estimate (median) when it was less than the maximum limit of detection (LOD) for this study.
To improve resolution at high exposure levels, we further categorized lifetime exposure-days by splitting the top tertile at the median when the split left at least four exposed cases in each new category.
The bus first ran off the right side of Interstate 20, then flipped into the median when the driver overcorrected to the left.
Citing figures provided by the State Department of Education, Dr. Gallagher said that Long Island's per-pupil spending actually is below the state median when figures are adjusted for regional cost differences.
Marty Katz, a partner with Mercer Consulting, which advised the fund regarding Dr. Tillman's pay, said the compensation figure — which combined salary with performance-linked bonus payments — was slightly below the median for comparable executives when the bonuses were excluded and slightly above the median when they were counted.
That is, the WSE loss function based on the sample mean is more efficient than that using the sample median when no outlier exists.
I have to figure out how to stand in the median when it comes to love.
