I wrote
> 2. Possibly inaccurate percentiles
> ==================================
>
> In the example above, the 7th percentile is 8. But according to the
default
> method, x_7 should be given by the mean of x[6] and x[7] because P =
> _N*(7/100) = 7, the smallest index i > P is i = 8 and (i-1) = P. This
> implies that x_p should be 7.5 for p = 7.
I should have written,
2. Possibly inaccurate percentiles
==================================
In the example above, the 7th percentile is 8. But according to the default
method, x_7 should be given by the mean of x[7] and x[8] because
^ ^
P = _N*(7/100) = 7, the smallest index i > P is i = 8 and (i-1) = P. This
implies that x_p should be 7.5 for p = 7.
Patrick Joly
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