RE: Useless stats (how to calculate the median)

Posted in 1999

Rekaish Bhardwaj — Mon, 6 Dec 1999 11:27:26 -0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Isn't median an average value ?? (I seem to remember something like that from my maths classes). So I would have thought that it is a simple case of adding up the values and then dividing by the number of items that where added. Regards Rekaish -----Original Message----- From: steve_roach@NOSPAMibm.net [mailto:steve_roach@NOSPAMibm.net] Sent: 06 December 1999 09:16 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Useless stats (how to calculate the median) Hi folks, Due to some ineptitude upstream, I am required to calculate the median of a set of values. Anybody know of a straight forward way of doing this? TIA Steve --------------------------------------------------------- Steve Roach: Remove NOSPAM from address to reply: steve_roach@NOSPAMibm.net steve_roach@NOSPAMhotmail.com