Statistics
Percentile
compute percentiles
Calling Sequence
Parameters
Description
Options
Examples
References
Compatibility
Percentile(A, p, ds_options)
Percentile(X, p, rv_options)
A
-
data set or Matrix data set
X
algebraic; random variable or distribution
p
algebraic; percentile
ds_options
(optional) equation(s) of the form option=value where option is one of ignore, method, or weights; specify options for computing the percentile of a data set
rv_options
(optional) equation of the form numeric=value; specifies options for computing the percentile of a random variable
The Percentile function computes the specified percentile of the specified random variable or data set.
The first parameter can be a data set (e.g., a Vector), a Matrix data set, a distribution (see Statistics[Distribution]), a random variable, or an algebraic expression involving random variables (see Statistics[RandomVariable]).
The second parameter p is the percentile.
For a description of the available options, see the Statistics[Quantile] help page. Calling Percentile with percentile is equivalent to calling Quantile with probability .
Compute the percentile of the Weibull distribution with parameters a and b.
Use numeric parameters.
Generate a random sample of size 100000 drawn from the above distribution and compute the sample percentile.
Consider the following Matrix data set.
We compute 29th percentile of each of the columns.
Stuart, Alan, and Ord, Keith. Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics. 6th ed. London: Edward Arnold, 1998. Vol. 1: Distribution Theory.
The A parameter was updated in Maple 16.
See Also
Statistics[Computation]
Statistics[DescriptiveStatistics]
Statistics[Distributions]
Statistics[Quantile]
Statistics[RandomVariables]
Statistics[StandardError]
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