(I saw your smile.) See The Basic Practice of Statistics by David S. Moore or
the more advanced Introduction to the Practice of Statistics by David S. Moore
and George P. McCabe. Look up "Median" and "Five-number summary" in the index.
If you can find it, see the ground-breaking Exploratory Data Analysis (now
known as EDA) by John W. Tukey. --Kip
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On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:08 AM, Bo Jacoby <bojac...@yahoo.dk> wrote:
> No, Kip. The median is a useless concept. It should not be implemented.
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>> Sendt: 23:29 søndag den 10. marts 2013
>> Emne: [Jprogramming] Find the median
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>> The median of list 1 2 2 4 6 is 2 ("middle" value of sorted list), the
>> median of 2 2 4 6 is 3 (average of two "middle" values). Write a verb to
>> find the median of a sorted list of numbers.
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>> --Kip Murray
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