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Re: newbie help with statistics function
From: |
Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: newbie help with statistics function |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:07:08 -0500 |
On Friday, November 21, 2008, at 08:15AM, "Daniel Harris" <address@hidden>
wrote:
>Hello All
>
>New to octave and new to maths again but I am working on some statistics
>work that requires a boxplot and I thing something is wrong.
>
>I entered the following
>
>a= [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10 ]
>
>and statistics(a)
>
> 1.00000
> 3.00000
> 5.00000
> 8.00000
> 10.00000
> 5.50000
> 3.02765
> 0.00000
> -1.56164
>
>but isnt the median wrong. shouldnt it be 5.5 and the boxplot also has it at
>5 also but
>
>median(a)
>
>ans = 5.5
>
>This is my first attempt with octave (3.01 Debian lenny) and I am a bit
>confused.
>
>Any help appreciated
>
>Dan
This has been fixed in the developers sources.
revision 7643: 0220da981c2a
http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/octave/diff/0220da981c2a/scripts/statistics/base/statistics.m
Jaroslav, can the be applied to 3.0.x?
Ben