[R] median by geometric mean

Hadley Wickham hadley at rice.edu
Sat Jan 15 19:24:11 CET 2011


exp(median(log(x)) ?

Hadley

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Skull Crossbones
<witch.of.agnessi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to calculate the median for even number of data points.However
> instead of calculating
> the arithmetic mean of the two middle values,I need to calculate their
> geometric mean.
>
> Though I can code this in R, possibly in a few lines, but wondering if there
> is
> already some built in function.
>
> Can somebody give a hint?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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