Find the middle value of a distribution.

Note:   With an odd number of variables, the median will be the single value that falls at the midpoint of the distribution. With an even number of variables the median will be the mean of the middle two values in the distribution.

See Determine the MEDIAN value prior to SAS 9.0 for earlier releases.

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data test;
  input x1 x2 x3 x4 ;
  med_1_3=median(x1,x2,x3);
  med_1_4=median(of x1-x4);
datalines;
24 25 27 100
4 2 16 1000
;

proc print;
run;

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Obs    x1    x2    x3     x4     med_1_3    med_1_4

  1     24    25    27     100       25         26
  2      4     2    16    1000        4         10

Find the middle value of a distribution.

Type:	Sample
Topic:	SAS Reference ==> DATA Step SAS Reference ==> Functions

Date Modified:	2005-12-23 03:02:57
Date Created:	2004-09-30 14:09:03

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