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- # Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
- #
- # This file is part of Octave.
- #
- # Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
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-
- function retval = median (a)
-
- # usage: median (a)
- #
- # For vector arguments, return the median of the values.
- #
- # For matrix arguments, return a row vector containing the median for
- # each column.
- #
- # See also: std, mean
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("medain (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
-