[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #29600] median() returns wrong result (sometimes)

[Rik]

Update of bug #29600 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

The definition of the median function depends on the number of elements in
the dataset.  If the number of elements is odd, then the median is just the
middle element of the dataset when they have been ordered from lowest to
highest.  If the number of elements is even then the median is equal to the
average (mean) of the two middle elements.  See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median for further reference.

As examples,
median(1:5) = 3
median(1:4) = 2.5 [the average of the two middle elements 2 and 3]

This is not a bug.

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