DADiSP Worksheet Functions > Function Categories > Statistics and Calculus > MEDIAN

 

MEDIAN

Purpose:

Finds the median value of a series.

Syntax:

MEDIAN(series)

series

-

Optional. A series, defaults to the current Window.

Returns:

A scalar.

Example:

median({2,8,4,32,16})

 

returns 4, because there are two observations greater than four and two lower.

Example:

median({2,8,4,32})

 

returns 6.0, the average of the two middle values.

Remarks:

MEDIAN must SORT the input series, which can be time consuming for large data.

 

See COLMEDIAN to find the median of each column of a table.

 

See MOVMEDIAN to compute the moving median of a series.

 

See BLOCKMEDIAN to compute the non-overlapping block median of a series.

See Also:

BLOCKMEDIAN

COLMEDIAN

MOVMEDIAN

MEAN

MEDFILT1

PERCENTILE

SORT

STDEV