find median values from array in javascript (8 values or 9 values)

Question

How can i find median values from array in javascript

this is my array

var data = [       
    { values: 4 }, 
    { values: 4 }, 
    { values: 4 }         


        

Answer 1

This will do what you need - at the moment you've no logic to cope with reading the .values field out of each element of the array:

function findMedian(data) {

    // extract the .values field and sort the resulting array
    var m = data.map(function(v) {
        return v.values;
    }).sort(function(a, b) {
        return a - b;
    });

    var middle = Math.floor((m.length - 1) / 2); // NB: operator precedence
    if (m.length % 2) {
        return m[middle];
    } else {
        return (m[middle] + m[middle + 1]) / 2.0;
    }
}

EDIT I've padded out the code a bit compared to my original answer for readability, and included the (surprising to me) convention that the median of an even-length set be the average of the two elements either side of the middle.