Merge pull request #2266 from JuliaLang/anj/median

Make median behave on arrays as mean and var
JuliaLang · Feb 11, 2013 · 26110fa · 26110fa
2 parents d3ab027 + 87723f9
commit 26110fa
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diff --git a/base/statistics.jl b/base/statistics.jl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function median!{T<:Real}(v::AbstractVector{T})
     isnan(v[end]) && error("median is undefined in presence of NaNs")
     isodd(length(v)) ? float(v[div(end+1,2)]) : (v[div(end,2)]+v[div(end,2)+1])/2
 end
-median{T<:Real}(v::AbstractArray{T}) = median!(copy(v))
+median{T<:Real}(v::AbstractArray{T}) = median!(copy(reshape(v, length(v))))
 
 ## variance with known mean
 function var(v::AbstractVector, m::Number, corrected::Bool)