Conditional median in MS Excel

Question

I\'m trying to calculate the conditional median of a chart that looks like this:

A  |  B
-------
x  |  1
x  |  1
x  |  3
x  |  
y  |  4
z  |  5

Answer 1

Nested if statements.

=MEDIAN(IF(A:A = "x",IF(B:B<>"",B:B, ""),"")

Not much to explain - it checks if A is x. If it is, it checks if B is non-blank. Anything that matches both conditions gets calculated as part of the median.

Given the following data set:

A | B
------
x | 
x |     
x | 2
x | 3
x | 4
x | 5

The above formula returns 3.5, which is what I believe you wanted.