On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 02:42:01PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> This seems like a reasonable idea to me -- but be warned that there
> are actually quite a few slightly-different definitions of "quantile"
> in use. R supports 9 different methods of calculating quantiles

Indeed. I've been considering quantiles and quartiles for a long time, 
and I've found at least ten different definitions for quantiles and 
sixteen for quartiles.



-- 
Steve
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