megh <megh700004 <at> yahoo.com> writes:
> To calculate Percentile for a set of observations Excel has percentile() > function. R function quantile() does the same thing. Is there any > significant difference btw percentile and quantile? If you check the documentation of quantile, you will note that there are 9 variants of quantile which may give different values for small sample sizes and many ties. I found a German page that explains the algorithm Excel uses: http://www.excel4managers.de/index.php?page=quantile01 but I did not check if which of the R-variants this is equivalent to. Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
