Re: MFI: mean, or median, fluorescence intensity?

Maciej Simm wrote:

> 
> if I ask google scholar:
> 
> "MFI *median* fluorescence intensity"
> 
> vs
> 
> "MFI *mean* fluorescence intensity"
> 
> I get 3,470 vs 16,100 hits, respectively. So which is it - mean or
> median fluorescence intensity? 
> 
Neither or both. The majority doesn't, or at least shouldn't, rule; what
is needed here is agreement from some standard-setting body that MFI
means one or the other. My impression, borne out by your query to Google
scholar, is that most people use MFI to denote Mean Fluorescence
Intensity. MdnFI would be an unambiguous abbreviation for Median
Fluorescence Intensity (MdFI might be interpreted as either Median or
Mod[al] Fluorescence Intensity).

As I said before, the median is more robust than the mean.

-Howard