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Phil Steitz commented on MATH-1120:
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The approach sounds reasonable to me, but the patch fails when I try to apply
it to the code in trunk. It also appears to mix formatting changes with code
modifications. Please turn off whatever your IDE is doing to reformat the code
so we can focus on just what is being changed in the patch.
> Need Percentile computations that can be matched with standard spreadsheet
> formula
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> Key: MATH-1120
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1120
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.2
> Reporter: Venkatesha Murthy TS
> Labels: Percentile
> Fix For: 4.0
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> Attachments: excel-percentile-patch, percentile-with-estimation-patch
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> Original Estimate: 504h
> Remaining Estimate: 504h
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> The current Percentile implementation assumes and hard-codes the quantile pth
> position as
> p * (N+1)/100 and provides a kth selected value.
> However if we need to verify compare/contrast with standard statistical tools
> such as say MS Excel; it would be good to provide an extensible way of
> morphing this selection of position than hard code.
> For example in order to generate the percentile closely matching with MS
> Excel the position required may be [p*(N-1)/100]+1.
> Please let me know if i could submit this as a patch.
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