It looks like prctile(X,p) is the same as quantile(X,p) i.e x<-0:100 quantile(x,0.5) is the median(x) and quantile(x,0.1)=10 is the value that is greater than 10% percent of the values in X
"José Luis Aznarte M." wrote: > > Hi there! Still struggling to translate Matlab code into R's tsDyn > package. > Here is my question: Is there in R an equivalent function to Matlab's > prctile()? To the moment I thought it was quantile(), but I just > realized I was wrong. The definition of the Matlab function: > > prctile > Percentiles of a sample > SyntaxY = prctile(X,p) > Description > Y = prctile(X,p) calculates a value that is greater than p percent of > the values in X. The values of p must lie in the interval [0 100]. For > instance, if p = 50 then Y is the median of X > > Thanks!! > > -- > -- -- > Jose Luis Aznarte M. http://decsai.ugr.es/~jlaznarte > Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence > Universidad de Granada Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 04 67 > GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 00 79 > > ______________________________________________ > 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/Percentiles-in-R-tf4423440.html#a12617896 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.
