Well, I work in a Six Sigma department so...!<br><br>Anyway, I agree that your proposal could be interesting...what do you think of the current implementations in Pharo?<br><br>#median, for example, doesn&#39;t seem to be used anywhere except as an &quot;approved&quot; method name in MethodFinder&gt;&gt;initialize...<br>
<br>Take care,<br><br>Rob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/1 Michael van der Gulik <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mikevdg@gmail.com">mikevdg@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Rob Rothwell <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:r.j.rothwell@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.j.rothwell@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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I notice that the current median is:<br><br>median<br>��� &quot;Return the middle element, or as close as we can get.&quot;<br><br>��� ^ self at: self size + 1 // 2<br><br>Any reason not to make that accurate and return the average of the middle two values for collections containing an even number of items?<br>


<br>Or...better yet...should statistics functions be removed and placed into another package with other useful items like mode, range, standardDeviation, etc...?<br></blockquote></div></div><div><br><br>Hmm...<br><br>| � � |<br>
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</div>s := StatisticalAnalysis on: myCollection.<br>� := s mean.<br>�
:= s standardDeviation.<br>range := � � �.<br><br>This might be interesting.<br><br>Gulik<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><a href="http://gulik.pbwiki.com/" target="_blank">http://gulik.pbwiki.com/</a><br>

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