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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} median (@var{x})
- ## If @var{x} is a vector, compute the median value of the elements of
- ## @var{x}.
- ## @iftex
- ## @tex
- ## $$
- ## {\rm median} (x) =
- ## \cases{x(\lceil N/2\rceil), & $N$ odd;\cr
- ## (x(N/2)+x(N/2+1))/2, & $N$ even.}
- ## $$
- ## @end tex
- ## @end iftex
- ## @ifinfo
- ##
- ## @example
- ## @group
- ## x(ceil(N/2)), N odd
- ## median(x) =
- ## (x(N/2) + x((N/2)+1))/2, N even
- ## @end group
- ## @end example
- ## @end ifinfo
- ## If @var{x} is a matrix, compute the median value for each
- ## column and return them in a row vector.
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: std, mean
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = median (a)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("median (a)");
- endif
-
- [nr, nc] = size (a);
- s = sort (a);
- if (nr == 1 && nc > 0)
- if (rem (nc, 2) == 0)
- i = nc/2;
- retval = (s (i) + s (i+1)) / 2;
- else
- i = ceil (nc/2);
- retval = s (i);
- endif
- elseif (nr > 0 && nc > 0)
- if (rem (nr, 2) == 0)
- i = nr/2;
- retval = (s (i,:) + s (i+1,:)) / 2;
- else
- i = ceil (nr/2);
- retval = s (i,:);
- endif
- else
- error ("median: invalid matrix argument");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-