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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.math.stat.descriptive.rank;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+
+/**
+ * Returns the median of the available values. This is the same as the 50th percentile.
+ * See {@link Percentile} for a description of the algorithm used.
+ * <p>
+ * <strong>Note that this implementation is not synchronized.</strong> If
+ * multiple threads access an instance of this class concurrently, and at least
+ * one of the threads invokes the <code>increment()</code> or
+ * <code>clear()</code> method, it must be synchronized externally.</p>
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 811685 $ $Date: 2009-09-05 19:36:48 +0200 (sam. 05 sept. 2009) $
+ */
+public class Median extends Percentile implements Serializable {
+
+ /** Serializable version identifier */
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = -3961477041290915687L;
+
+ /**
+ * Default constructor.
+ */
+ public Median() {
+ super(50.0);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Copy constructor, creates a new {@code Median} identical
+ * to the {@code original}
+ *
+ * @param original the {@code Median} instance to copy
+ */
+ public Median(Median original) {
+ super(original);
+ }
+
+}