Re: Statistics on Tab Delimited File

Using libraries (like Acme::Tools) is not only efficient for coding, it can be a good way to gain the benefit of technical expertise you may not have. I mention this because the OP's code to compute median is fundamentally flawed (median is computed differently for even and odd numbers of items).

For more details on median, see MathWorld.

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Re^2: Statistics on Tab Delimited File by Paragod28 (Novice) on Dec 10, 2009 at 22:44 UTC
Yes I know the median routine is flawed. I was not receiving appropriate outputs against values such as 1e-33 so I decided to sort and cut the list in half and take that number. It is not accurate but close enough for my purposes. I am just trying to get an idea on organism distribution on sequence samples. If anyone knows a way to output the median of scientific notation (evalues)it would greatly help. Thanks again.	[reply]

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by Paragod28 (Novice) on Dec 10, 2009 at 22:44 UTC

Yes I know the median routine is flawed. I was not receiving appropriate outputs against values such as 1e-33 so I decided to sort and cut the list in half and take that number. It is not accurate but close enough for my purposes. I am just trying to get an idea on organism distribution on sequence samples. If anyone knows a way to output the median of scientific notation (evalues)it would greatly help. Thanks again.

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