>> I can understand this viewpoint. However, I must say it seems wrong
 >> to maintain to versions of the same function. As you have already
 >> seen, this leads to situations where bugs are fixed in one version
 >> but not in another.
 >>
 >> Does anybody have thoughts on how we should deal with this situation?
 >>
 >
 > I totally agree that this is a tricky situation, but removing it would
 > leave some users stranded.

Does anybody object if I simply replace the 'statistics' package version 
  of the prctile function by the core Octave version? The current 
version in the 'statistics' package follows the 'R way'. Replacing it 
would restore compatibility with Matlab.

Arno

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