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    Ignoring Duplicates when Calculating a Median

    I have a spreadsheet with around 45,000 line items. I have another sheet that has calculations on them to pull the numbers shown on the attachment. A regular median calculation in excel will bring up the value of 1. I believe this is happening because of the many values of 1 in column A. If I remove the duplicates I get a value of 10.5. Is there a way to manipulate a median formula so it will ignore all duplicate values?
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    Re: Ignoring Duplicates when Calculating a Median

    Try:

    =MEDIAN(IF(FREQUENCY(A1:A49,A1:A49),A1:A49))

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    Re: Ignoring Duplicates when Calculating a Median

    How would you enter it into the following formula:
    =IFERROR(MEDIAN(IF(Data!$H$8:Data!$H$52000=$A206,IF(Data!$M$8:$M$52000>=A$73,IF(Data!$M$8:$M$52000<B$73,Data!$T$8:$T$52000)))), "")

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    Re: Ignoring Duplicates when Calculating a Median

    Try:

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    confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER not just ENTER.

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