Re: newbie help with statistics function

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, November 21, 2008, at 10:07AM, "Ben Abbott" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>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
>

This time with a link to the entire changeset :-)

http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/octave/rev/0220da981c2a

Ben