To find the location of the median for a set that has an even number of elements, we can divide the sample size by 2 and the median will be between this quotient and the next number on the list. (For ...To find the location of the median for a set that has an even number of elements, we can divide the sample size by 2 and the median will be between this quotient and the next number on the list. (For example, let’s say we have a set of 8 data values. If there are an odd number of values in the set, the median is the data value exactly in the middle of the sorted list, and there will be an equal number of data values on each side of the median.