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Statistical functions in VFP6 (import)
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
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>>Just out of curiosity, should you round up, down, it doesn't matter, or depends on the analysis context?
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>Up, usually - the most common case I see is where you want to have the median be in rounded dollars, without cents. If it's big money, you may round several digits even.
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>However, I think this might be a case to help use statistics to lie slightly for you - choose the rounding method that makes your median look best for you. Then, as you say, it depends on context :)

So, rounding 5.5 to 6 would be the correct and appropriate thing to do ( i.e. normal rounding ). But are you saying that some one could legitimately, in determining a median, "round" $5.01 to 6 and call that "correct"?
William A. Caton III
Software Engineer
MAXIMUS
Atlanta, Ga.
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