Median

[Beliavsky]

I suggest that the descriptive statistics section include the median. Alan Miller's median.f90 could be used. Arguably any library that has a function for the mean should also have one for the median, since the latter is a more robust measure of central tendency (although less efficient than the arithmetic mean for Gaussian data).

[jvdp1]

Thank you for opening this thread. I agree with you that stdlib should include a function for the median (but also for the quartiles,..). However, such functions need sorting algorithms. This might be solved in a near-future with #98. I think it is better to rely on a module that provide general algorithms, instead of implementing its own algorithm as in Alan Miller 's code.

This issue is also related to #113 in which such a function was already proposed.

[14NGiestas]

Closing this issue since it was addressed by #426, stdlib has median since v0.1.0