newbie help with statistics function

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, November 21, 2008, at 08:15AM, "Daniel Harris" <mail.dharris at googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hello All
>
>New to octave and new to maths again but I am working on some statistics
>work that requires a boxplot and I thing something is wrong.
>
>I entered the following
>
>a= [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10 ]
>
>and statistics(a)
>
>    1.00000
>    3.00000
>    5.00000
>    8.00000
>   10.00000
>    5.50000
>    3.02765
>    0.00000
>   -1.56164
>
>but isnt the median wrong. shouldnt it be 5.5 and the boxplot also has it at
>5 also but
>
>median(a)
>
>ans = 5.5
>
>This is my first attempt with octave (3.01 Debian lenny) and I am a bit
>confused.
>
>Any help appreciated
>
>Dan

This has been fixed in the developers sources.

revision 7643:  	0220da981c2a

http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/octave/diff/0220da981c2a/scripts/statistics/base/statistics.m

Jaroslav, can the be applied to 3.0.x?

Ben