Learn Advanced Array Methods by Building a Statistics Calculator - Step 26

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Hi team I do not know what I seem to be doing wrong with my odd elements if statement it is not passing can someone please help.

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<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css" />
    <script src="./script.js"></script>
    <title>Statistics Calculator</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Statistics Calculator</h1>
    <p>Enter a list of comma-separated numbers.</p>
    <form onsubmit="calculate(); return false;">
      <label for="numbers">Numbers:</label>
      <input type="text" name="numbers" id="numbers" />
      <button type="submit">Calculate</button>
    </form>
    <div class="results">
      <p>
        The <dfn>mean</dfn> of a list of numbers is the average, calculated by
        taking the sum of all numbers and dividing that by the count of numbers.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">Mean: <span id="mean"></span></p>
      <p>
        The <dfn>median</dfn> of a list of numbers is the number that appears in
        the middle of the list, when sorted from least to greatest.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">Median: <span id="median"></span></p>
      <p>
        The <dfn>mode</dfn> of a list of numbers is the number that appears most
        often in the list.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">Mode: <span id="mode"></span></p>
      <p>
        The <dfn>range</dfn> of a list of numbers is the difference between the
        largest and smallest numbers in the list.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">Range: <span id="range"></span></p>
      <p>
        The <dfn>variance</dfn> of a list of numbers measures how far the values
        are from the mean, on average.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">Variance: <span id="variance"></span></p>
      <p>
        The <dfn>standard deviation</dfn> of a list of numbers is the square
        root of the variance.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">
        Standard Deviation: <span id="standardDeviation"></span>
      </p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
/* file: script.js */
const getMean = (array) => array.reduce((acc, el) => acc + el, 0) / array.length;


// User Editable Region

const getMedian = (array) => {
  const sorted = array.sort((a, b) => a - b);
  if(sorted.length % 2 === 0){

// User Editable Region

    return getMean([sorted[(sorted.length/2)-1] ,sorted[sorted.length/2]]);
  } else if(sorted.length % 2 === 1){
    return sorted[Math.floor(sorted[sorted.length / 2])];
  }
}

const calculate = () => {
  const value = document.querySelector("#numbers").value;
  const array = value.split(/,\s*/g);
  const numbers = array.map(el => Number(el)).filter(el => !isNaN(el));
  
  const mean = getMean(numbers);

  document.querySelector("#mean").textContent = mean;
}
/* file: styles.css */
body {
  margin: 0;
  background-color: rgb(27, 27, 50);
  text-align: center;
  color: #fff;
}

button {
  cursor: pointer;
  background-color: rgb(59, 59, 79);
  border: 3px solid white;
  color: white;
}

input {
  background-color: rgb(10, 10, 35);
  color: white;
  border: 1px solid rgb(59, 59, 79);
}

.bold {
  font-weight: bold;
}

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Learn Advanced Array Methods by Building a Statistics Calculator - Step 26

Although this works it is not needed. You already checked the remainder earlier and confirmed it is not zero just by saying else.
Remove this if statement (leave the else)

Try to rewrite this from scratch. Right now your statement is trying to get the element in the sorted array which is the floor of the element in the sorted array which is at the location of the decimal value that sorted.length divided by 2 gives. So if sorted.length is 5, then 5/2 is 2.5 and you are trying to get an element at that location. Just erase the line and start again. If you don’t know what is happening, write a console.log statement and test you assumptions.

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you deserve a crown. thank you so much :hugs:

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