uocquantile {np}R Documentation

Compute Quantiles

Description

uocquantile is a function which computes quantiles of an unordered, ordered, or continuous variable x.

Usage

uocquantile(x, prob)

Arguments

x an ordered, unordered or continuous variable.
prob quantile to compute.

Details

uocquantile is a function which computes quantiles of unordered, ordered, or a continuous variable x. If x is unordered, the mode is returned. If x is ordered, the level for which the cumulative distribution is >= prob is returned. If x is continuous, quantile is invoked and the result returned.

Value

A quantile computed from x.

Author(s)

Tristen Hayfield hayfield@phys.ethz.ch, Jeffrey S. Racine racinej@mcmaster.ca

See Also

quantile

Examples

x <- rbinom(n = 100, size = 10, prob = 0.5)
uocquantile(x, 0.5)

[Package np version 0.30-3 Index]