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The 24 pages that link to Median, each with the reason it gives.

• Gender pay gapRelated: Median comparisons reduce the influence of very high earners.

• Robust statisticsRelated: Unlike the mean, it can tolerate nearly half the observations being arbitrarily extreme.

• Descriptive statisticsRelated: It describes the center while resisting the influence of extreme values.

• Cauchy distributionRelated: The Cauchy distribution has a well-defined median even though its mean does not exist.

• Data typesRelated: Ordering is enough to define a median, so it can summarize ordinal data.

• Box plotRelated: The line inside the box marks the dataset’s median.

• Interquartile rangeRelated: It marks the center of the interval whose width the IQR measures.

• Log-normal distributionRelated: For a log-normal variable, the median is the exponential of the underlying normal mean.

• Median voter theoremRelated: The median voter's position divides the electorate into two sides.

• QuartileRelated: The second quartile is the median, and the other quartiles divide data around it.

• Stem-and-leaf displayRelated: Reading leaves in order makes the middle observation straightforward to locate.

• Violin plotRelated: The median is often marked inside a violin as a compact center summary.