[ncl-talk] dim_median_n

[jbuzan]

Great to know, Dennis.  I think I’ll change things back to integers.  

-Jonathan




> On Sep 20, 2015, at 10:35 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
> [1] Yes the code that computes the median is in a .o (binary file.
> 
> [2] As noted by AB ... the method used is the standard. (eg: check R).
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Alan Brammer <abrammer at albany.edu> wrote:
>> Assume so, based on your result and that that's how the median should be
>> calculated.
>> I'd be surprised if any program out there didn't calculate it this way.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:08 PM, jbuzan <jbuzan at purdue.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 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 of the two
>>> middle values [1] [2] (the median of {3, 5, 7, 9} is (5 + 7) / 2 = 6), which
>>> corresponds to interpreting the median as the fully trimmed mid-range.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Alan.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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