On 12/31/2020 09:50 PM, list+ffmpeg-u...@jdlh.com wrote:
On 2020-12-31 17:25, Mark Filipak (ffmpeg) wrote:
1, Median? Really? (Or maybe really average?)
For inputs = 239+15+15+15:
median = (239+15)/2 = 127
average = (239+15+15+15)/4 = 71
For inputs = 239+239+239+15:
median = (239+15)/2 = 127 (again)
average = (239+239+239+15)/4 = 183
It jumped out at me that the expressions you are computing for "median" don't match the definition I
am used to. It looks like you are computing the average of the largest and smallest samples. I
understand "median" to be a value such that half the samples are greater than or equal to, and half
are less than equal to, the value.
For inputs = 239+15+15+15:
median = 15 (239, 15 >= 15; 15, 15 <= 15)
For inputs = 239+239+239+15:
median = 239 (239, 239 >= 239; 239, 15 <= 15)
So, how to you define "median"? And how does FFmpeg?
—Jim DeLaHunt
Thank you, Jim. You are correct. I reckon I was thinking of some sort of mean value -- there are
several versions of mean.
Median: The middle number in a given sequence of numbers, taken as the average of the two middle
numbers when the sequence has an even number of numbers.
Hmmm... What sort of weighting is that?
For inputs = 239+15+15+15:
median = (15+15)/2 = 15
average = (239+15+15+15)/4 = 71
For inputs = 239+239+239+15:
median = (239+239)/2 = 239
average = (239+239+239+15)/4 = 183
As you see, the median winds up being either 15 or 239.
So, what's the function of 'percentile'?
And why is "inputs=2" not allowed?
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