Yes, I aware of those definitions. However I wanted to know the difference btw the words "Percentile" and "quantile", if any. Secondly your link navigates to some non-english site, which I could not understand.
Dieter Menne wrote: > > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Diff-btw-percentile-and-quantile-tp22328375p22333142.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
