Manuals/calci/MEDIAN

MEDIAN(n1,n2,n3...)

• Where $n1,n2,n3...$ are numerical values.

MEDIAN() calculates the middle value in the set of given values.

Description

MEDIAN(n1,n2,n3...)

For Example,

MEDIAN(10,30,50,70,90) returns 50.

MEDIAN(2,4,6,8) returns 5.

MEDIAN("TEST","TEN","TAKE","TELL","TRAIN") returns TAKE.

• Arguments $n1,n2,n3...$ can be numbers, logical values or arrays, names or references that contain numbers.
• For a set of even numbers, MEDIAN calculates the average of the two numbers that are in the middle.
• If the argument contains numbers, they are arranged in ascending order and then median is calculated.
• If the argument contains text, each text takes its positional value and then median is calculated.
• Logical value TRUE is evaluated as '1' and FALSE is evaluated as '0'.
• The cells with zero value are counted.

Examples

45	2
-20	4
-30	TRUE
4	0.5
5	0

=MEDIAN(A1:A5) : Calculates the median value in the range A1 to A5. Displays 4 as a result.
=MEDIAN(A2,A3,10) : Calculates the median value -20,-30 and 10. Displays -20 as a result.
=MEDIAN(B1:B4) : Calculates the median value in the range B1 to B4. Displays 1.5 as a result. Here TRUE is considered as 1.
=MEDIAN(B1:B5) : Calculates the median value in the range B1 to B5. Displays TRUE as a result.

See Also

• AVERAGE
• MODE

References

• Median