Computing Median

I need to compute the median not an average.
Using help in Access 2000 it says there is a worksheet function "median".
No there is not. It says undefined function when I try to use it.
I have found the help in access 2000 to be totally worthless. It gives me
answers that are out and out wrong.

Do a search on "median" and you will find lots of information.

"mcl" wrote:

I need to compute the median not an average.
Using help in Access 2000 it says there is a worksheet function "median".
No there is not. It says undefined function when I try to use it.
I have found the help in access 2000 to be totally worthless. It gives me
answers that are out and out wrong.

I did a search for median in access2000 help and that's all I got. A
worksheet function that doesn't really exist.

"KARL DEWEY" wrote in message
...
Do a search on "median" and you will find lots of information.

"mcl" wrote:

I need to compute the median not an average.
Using help in Access 2000 it says there is a worksheet function
"median".
No there is not. It says undefined function when I try to use it.
I have found the help in access 2000 to be totally worthless. It gives
me
answers that are out and out wrong.

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The VBA help also includes the Excel VBA help, that's where the Median()
function description is coming from.

Here is a query I found on an SQL Server newsgroup that supposedly finds
the median (I've changed it's syntax so it can be used in Access -
substitute your column names and table names) [this query is untested in
access]:

SELECT AVG(splunge1) As Median
FROM
(
SELECT splunge1 FROM (
SELECT TOP 1 splunge2 * 1.0 As splunge1 FROM
(
SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT splunge2
FROM blat ORDER BY splunge2
) As sub_a
ORDER BY 1 DESC
) As sub_1
UNION ALL
SELECT splunge1 FROM (
SELECT TOP 1 splunge * 1.0 As splunge1 FROM
(
SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT splunge2
FROM blat ORDER BY splunge2 DESC
) As sub_b
ORDER BY 1
) As sub_2
) As median
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Oakland, CA (USA)

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mcl wrote:
I did a search for median in access2000 help and that's all I got. A
worksheet function that doesn't really exist.

"KARL DEWEY" wrote in message
...

Do a search on "median" and you will find lots of information.

"mcl" wrote:


I need to compute the median not an average.
Using help in Access 2000 it says there is a worksheet function
"median".

No there is not. It says undefined function when I try to use it.
I have found the help in access 2000 to be totally worthless. It gives
me answers that are out and out wrong.