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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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8 ## any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
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17 ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
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18 ## 02111-1307, USA.
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20 ## usage: median (a)
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21 ##
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22 ## For vector arguments, return the median of the values.
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23 ##
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24 ## For matrix arguments, return a row vector containing the median for
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25 ## each column.
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26 ##
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27 ## See also: std, mean
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28
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29 ## Author: jwe
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31 function retval = median (a)
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32
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33 if (nargin != 1)
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34 usage ("median (a)");
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35 endif
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36
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37 [nr, nc] = size (a);
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38 s = sort (a);
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39 if (nr == 1 && nc > 0)
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40 if (rem (nc, 2) == 0)
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41 i = nc/2;
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42 retval = (s (i) + s (i+1)) / 2;
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43 else
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44 i = ceil (nc/2);
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45 retval = s (i);
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46 endif
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47 elseif (nr > 0 && nc > 0)
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48 if (rem (nr, 2) == 0)
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49 i = nr/2;
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50 retval = (s (i,:) + s (i+1,:)) / 2;
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51 else
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52 i = ceil (nr/2);
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53 retval = s (i,:);
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54 endif
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55 else
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56 error ("median: invalid matrix argument");
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57 endif
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59 endfunction