median {stats} | R Documentation

## Median Value

### Description

Compute the sample median of the vector of values given as its argument.

### Usage

    median(x, na.rm = FALSE)

### Arguments

`x` | a numeric vector containing the values whose median is to be computed.
`na.rm` | a logical value indicating whether `NA` values should be stripped before the computation proceeds.

### References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

### See Also

`quantile` for general quantiles.

### Examples

    median(1:4)# = 2.5 [even number]
    median(c(1:3,100,1000))# = 3 [odd, robust]

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