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# Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
#
# This file is part of Octave.
#
# Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
# later version.
#
# Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
# for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
# Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
function retval = median (a)
# usage: median (a)
#
# For vector arguments, return the median of the values.
#
# For matrix arguments, return a row vector containing the median for
# each column.
#
# See also: std, mean
if (nargin != 1)
usage ("medain (a)");
endif
[nr, nc] = size (a);
s = sort (a);
if (nr == 1 && nc > 0)
if (rem (nc, 2) == 0)
i = nc/2;
retval = (s (i) + s (i+1)) / 2;
else
i = ceil (nc/2);
retval = s (i);
endif
elseif (nr > 0 && nc > 0)
if (rem (nr, 2) == 0)
i = nr/2;
retval = (s (i,:) + s (i+1,:)) / 2;
else
i = ceil (nr/2);
retval = s (i,:);
endif
else
error ("median: invalid matrix argument");
endif
endfunction