median ifs

[surfsoc]

Hi,

I am using this formula:
{=MEDIAN(IF(AND(codes=$H4,investor_type=$U$2),FUM))}, where codes, investor_type and FUM are named ranges of equal size.

The response is not an error but 0 - what is going wrong? or is there a simpler method for conditional median calculations?

Ed

 

[Marcelo Branco]

Hi,

Try this

=MEDIAN(IF(codes=$H4,IF(investor_type=$U$2,FUM)))
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HTH

M.

 

[energman58]

If you have an array argument Median ignores text and blanks but counts zeros - so what may be happening is your IF is being read as Zero when it evaluates as FALSE - hence you are getting an array with lots of zeros and the median value is zero. You could try to modify it so you put in some text as the answer for FALSE (e.g. " ") to see if that works - it certainly wont hurt!

 

[AlphaFrog]

AND doesn't work in an array formula. You can multiply instead.

{=MEDIAN(IF((codes=$H4)*(investor_type=$U$2),FUM))}

 

[surfsoc]

Thanks everyone, got it now.

Cheers,

Ed