I have data like this.
Ram,500
Sam,400
Test,100
Ram,800
Sam,700
Test,300
Ram,900
Sam,800
Test,400
What is the shortest way to fine the "median" from above data. My result should be something like...
Median = 1/2(n+1), where n is the number of data values in the sample.
Test 500
Sam 700
Ram 800
Answer
Python 3.4 includes statistics built-in, so you can use the method statistics.median:
>>> from statistics import median
>>> median([1, 3, 5])
3