22 Sep
2014
22 Sep
'14
5:58 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:10:41PM +0200, Budulinku Dejmihrasku wrote:
Niels Thanks for the quick response however
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
The Median in MonetDB is mapped to Quantile(0.5) which doesn't have any mean of the middle values.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantile
Niels
and quote:
"If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values ^[1] ^[2] (the median of {3, 5, 7, 9} is (5 + 7) / 2 = 6)...."
so by this definition median of {1,2} should return 1.5 running this in Oracle, MSExcel, etc. i get 1.5 as well
if i miss something, or the definition of the Median is different in MonetDB - please let me know thanks in advance milan
On 21. 9. 2014 21:22, Niels Nes wrote:
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:33:08PM +0200, Budulinku Dejmihrasku wrote: Hi, just a quick question regarding to MEDIAN: with x as (select 1.0 as a union all select 2.0 as a) select sys.median(a) as result from x returns result=1 i would expect result=1.5 though 1.5 is not a value in the input. Median should always return a value from the input. Niels any suggestion? thanks milan _______________________________________________ users-list mailing list users-list@monetdb.org https://www.monetdb.org/mailman/listinfo/users-list _______________________________________________ users-list mailing list users-list@monetdb.org https://www.monetdb.org/mailman/listinfo/users-list
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