Statistics function incorrectly computing median

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 6, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Miguel Garcia-Blanco wrote:

> Octave 3.0.0 (i686-pc-msdosmsvc)
>
> The statistics function seems to be incorrectly computing the median:
>> x = 0:1;
>> x_stat = statistics( x );
>> x_med = x_stat( 3 );
>> x_med == median( x )
> ans = 0
>
> -Miguel

The bug appears to be buried here

> discrete_inv([0.25; 0.5; 0.75],[0:1],[1 1]/3)
> ans =
>
>    0
>    0
>    1

The correct answer would be

> ans =
>    0
>    0.5
>    1

 From what I can tell, this problem only occurs when the population  
has two members.

Ben

p.s. I've copied the author.