Roger I Martin PhD writes:
> Hi,
>
> Median as a function in sql does not exests that I know of. But if you get a
> resultset ordered by the column of numbers, you can then pick the median at
> the row index=n/2 where n is the total number of values in the column?
>
> Roger
Nope .
Median depends on statistical distribution.
There is one that is valid for sampling distribution, but there are
still many alternatives.
This is something that could be done as an UDF.
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