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med
Format: med( list )
med( x1, x2, ... )
Arguments: [any] list Input list
(any) x1, x2, ... Input values
Returns: (any) The median of all elements in list
if only one argument is supplied or the median of all arguments
if more than one argument is supplied
Description: The median value of a list is the value
where there are an equal number of larger and smaller elements.
If list contains an even number of elements, med
returns the average of the two central values. If the central two
elements are not numbers, med returns the first of these
two.
Examples: med([1,2,3,4,5]) = 3
med(1,2,3,4,5) = 3
med([1,2,3,4,5,6]) = 3.5
med(["a","b","c"])
= b
med(["a","b","c","d"])
= b
See Also: pct, max, min,
count, sum, prod,
avg, std, variance,
bin
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