Matthew Brett wrote:
>> Regarding dtype, I disagree. Why do you want to force the result to be a
>> float?

well, what's the median of (1, 2, 3, 4) ?

I learned it is 2.5

(Zar, Jerrold H. 1984. Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice Hall.)

Of course, the median of an odd number of integers would be an integer.

-Chris



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