[Numpy-discussion] Medians that ignore values
David Cournapeau
david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Thu Sep 18 22:45:56 EDT 2008
Anne Archibald wrote:
>
> I don't think I agree:
>
> In [4]: np.median([1,3,nan])
> Out[4]: 3.0
>
> In [5]: np.median([1,nan,3])
> Out[5]: nan
>
> In [6]: np.median([nan,1,3])
> Out[6]: 1.0
>
I was referring to the fact that if you have nan in your array, you
should use nanmean if you want to ignore them correctly. Now, the
different behavior depending on the order of items in the arrays is
indeed buggy, I thought this was fixed.
cheers,
David
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