"Mark R Marino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Why do you think that the algorithms in these computer > packages differ? Why aren't they universal? > Any thoughts or comments? See this article: Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages Rob J. Hyndman; Yanan Fan The American Statistician, Vol. 50, No. 4. (Nov., 1996), pp. 361-365. Your university *may* provide online access to it at "http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1305%28199611%2950%3A4%3C361%3ASQISP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G"; -- Karl Ove Hufthammer http://blogg.huftis.org/ . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
