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median {base}R Documentation

Median Value

Description

median computes the sample median of the vector of values given as its argument. If na.rm is TRUE then NA values are deleted before computation proceeds.

Usage

median(x, na.rm=FALSE)

See Also

quantile for general quantiles.

Examples

median(1:4)# = 2.5 [even number]
median(c(1:3,100,1000))# = 3 [odd, robust]
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