Yep, all your surmises are right. cheers M
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:24:58PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 13:50 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > > Yes > > Cool. > > > but not with perfect accuracy. > > I don't mind. > > > You have to make a histogram of the > > samples (choosing some bin size; > > Forgive my ignorance, but how can I create a histogram out of an > unordered set of samples? Do I just iterate over all samples "manually" > and count up the bin depending on in which bin it falls? > > > that's what limits accuracy) and then > > array qualtile will do exactly what you're looking for. > > So [array quantile] is meant to be used on a histogram of the raw data, > as opposed to the raw data directly? That's why it returns something > that looks like an index, namely the index of the bin of your > histogram? > > > I use it for instance to do automatic level setting. I ask for the > > 90% > > quamtile of env~ output (in dB) over a period of 10 seconds or so. > > Thanks, this I understand and is very similar to the stuff I'm > interested in. > > Roman > > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 02:46:29PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I am having difficulty understanding the output of [array > > > quantile]. > > > From the help-file it seems it expects an input between 0 and 1, > > > and > > > also the values in the array should be in that range. The output > > > seems > > > to be in the range between 0 and <array-size> - 1. But what does it > > > mean? > > > > > > Can I use this somehow to achieve this: > > > > > > I have n samples and input q while 0 < q < 1. I would like to know > > > the > > > value x for which q*100 percent samples are smaller than x and (1- > > > q)*100 percent bigger. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Roman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [email protected] mailing list > > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
