On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Rob Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I notice that the current median is: > > median > "Return the middle element, or as close as we can get." > > ^ self at: self size + 1 // 2 > > Any reason not to make that accurate and return the average of the middle > two values for collections containing an even number of items? > > Or...better yet...should statistics functions be removed and placed into > another package with other useful items like mode, range, standardDeviation, > etc...? > Hmm... | μ σ | s := StatisticalAnalysis on: myCollection. μ := s mean. σ := s standardDeviation. range := μ ± σ. This might be interesting. Gulik -- http://gulik.pbwiki.com/
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