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# 1  
Old 11-10-2008
Calculate the Median, first quartile and third quartile using AWK
Hi all,

I have a data range as follow:

28
33
42
12
9
68
81
55
6
47

Since I want to create Box & Whisker Plot, I need to calculate the median, first quartile and third quartile of above data using AWK.( so far I can only writing a code for determine smallest value & largest value using AWK)

Anyone can help me...Please..Smilie

Thanks
# 2  
Old 12-09-2008
unix calculator
Hi,

I would like to know how can I calculate mean, median and standard deviation of some numbers in a file.

Example file:
a 102 abc
b 301 adc
c 222 adc

I would like to calculate the mean, median and standard deviation of the numbers in the 2nd column of the example file.

Thanks in advance
# 3  
Old 12-09-2008
Maybe you should use awk instead of calculator to get the results. It would be much easier to grab the 2nd field an do the math on those.
# 4  
Old 12-09-2008
this will find the mean of numbers
Code:
awk '{mean += $2}END{print "mean ="mean/NR}' filename

Last edited by otheus; 01-30-2009 at 05:25 AM.. Reason: Corrected equation for mean
# 5  
Old 01-30-2009
For the median, you can the answer in this post to your problem. In this case, you will want to change "$NF" to "$2".
 
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