[ncl-talk] dim_median_n

[jbuzan]

Hi Alan,

Is this how NCL calculates the median?  
I think the code is in the binaries, because I didn’t see it in the contributed/shea_util.

-Jonathan


> On Sep 20, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Alan Brammer <abrammer at albany.edu> wrote:
> 
> From wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median>.
>  If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_mean> of the two middle values [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median#cite_note-StatisticalMedian-1> [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median#cite_note-2> (the median of {3, 5, 7, 9} is (5 + 7) / 2 = 6), which corresponds to interpreting the median as the fully trimmed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimmed_estimator> mid-range <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-range>. 
> 
> 
> Alan. 

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