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Percentiles: N Is Then Split Into Its Integer Component, K and Decimal Component, D, Such That N K + D. V

A percentile is a value below which a certain percentage of observations in a data set fall, such as the 20th percentile being the value below which 20% of observations may be found. There is no standard definition, but one method is to calculate the rank, round to the nearest integer, and take the corresponding value. Software packages often estimate the pth percentile value by interpolating between the kth and (k+1)th ordered values using the fractional part of n.

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Percentiles: N Is Then Split Into Its Integer Component, K and Decimal Component, D, Such That N K + D. V

A percentile is a value below which a certain percentage of observations in a data set fall, such as the 20th percentile being the value below which 20% of observations may be found. There is no standard definition, but one method is to calculate the rank, round to the nearest integer, and take the corresponding value. Software packages often estimate the pth percentile value by interpolating between the kth and (k+1)th ordered values using the fractional part of n.

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Percentiles

A percentile is the value of a variable below which a certain percent of observations fall. So the 20th
percentile is the value (or score) below which 20 percent of the observations may be found. There is no
standard definition of percentile.

One definition, usually given in texts, is that the p-th percentile of N ordered values is obtained by first

calculating the rank , rounding to the nearest integer, and taking the value that
corresponds to that rank.

Many software packages, use the following method to estimate the value, vp, of the pth percentile
of an ascending ordered dataset containing N elements with values v1,v2,...,vN;

n is then split into its integer component, k and decimal component, d, such that n = k + d. vp is
then calculated as:

An alternative method is as above, with n calculated as

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