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We beg<strong>in</strong> by list<strong>in</strong>g them <strong>in</strong> ascend<strong>in</strong>g order:<br />

The two middle values are 48 and 50 (these values are four values <strong>in</strong> from either side). These<br />

represent the 10/2=5 th and 10/2+1=6 th values <strong>in</strong> the dataset. To f<strong>in</strong>d the median, we average them<br />

together to get<br />

The median salary is $49,000 per employee per year.<br />

The median is clearly a more viable measure. The mean takes <strong>in</strong>to account all values, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the outlier, or “extreme” salary of $1.1 million per year. The median is not <strong>in</strong>fluenced by<br />

extreme outliers.<br />

To f<strong>in</strong>d the mean and median salaries <strong>in</strong> Excel we use the functions average() and median().<br />

The parameter <strong>for</strong> both functions is the cell range correspond<strong>in</strong>g to the dataset.<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 58

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