Thanks for the cool link. Generally this is the point where the tangential tilt is 45 degrees. Paul
W dniu wtorek, 27 maja 2014 15:06:25 UTC+2 użytkownik Harlan Harris napisał: > > Paul, I don't believe that this is a well-posed question. Determining what > is the tail of a distribution and what isn't is very much > problem-dependent. "getting flat" depends entirely on the scale of your > data, and isn't meaningful. You could do what people constructing boxplots > do, and use some multiple of the inter-quartile range from the median, but > that still depends on the source, distribution, and meaning of your data. > In any case, you'd be better off asking this somewhere like CrossValidated ( > http://stats.stackexchange.com/) -- this isn't a Julia question. > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:22 AM, paul analyst <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Does not work always, distributions are different. >> How to find the number of elements of the vector from which the chart is >> getting flat (where is the beginning of the tail?) >> Paul >> >> >> W dniu wtorek, 27 maja 2014 12:19:09 UTC+2 użytkownik Yuuki Soho napisał: >> >>> The simplest way to do it is probably to use a quantile: >>> >>> >>> a=[5 3 2 1.5 1.1 1 0.8 0.25 0.2 0.16] >>> >>> q = quantile(vec(a),0.1) >>> >>> a = a[1:cut] >>> >>> >>> >
