Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Library: xplore
See also: sort fivenum

Quantlet: quantile
Description: Computes the empirical quantiles of a given array.

Usage: s = quantile (x, a)
Input:
x array
a level for the quantiles (has to be in [0,1])
Output:
s for each column in x the empirical quantiles

Note:

Example:

library("xplore")

randomize (0)

x = normal (200, 2, 2)

quantile (x, #(0, 0.5, 1))

Result:



Contents of q

[,,1,1,1,1,1,1]

[1,] -2.7802 -3.0646 

[2,] -0.064325 -0.041017 

[3,] 2.4442 2.5595 

[,,2,1,1,1,1,1]

[1,] -2.7564 -2.7252 

[2,] 0.051381 0.18606 

[3,] 1.9993 4.2496 


Library: xplore
See also: sort fivenum

Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Author: TTK, 960207
(C) MD*TECH Method and Data Technologies, 21.9.2000