gotcha. yup, that was the back up plan so i think i'll go that route for now.
thanks for the info! best, -- *John Blythe* Product Manager & Lead Developer 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com www.curvolabs.com 58 Adams Ave Evansville, IN 47713 On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Toke Eskildsen <t...@statsbiblioteket.dk> wrote: > John Blythe <j...@curvolabs.com> wrote: > > if the range is 0 to 100 then, for my current purposes, i don't care if > the > > vast majority of the values are 92, i would want 25%=>25, 50%=>50, and > > 75%=>75. so is there an out-of-the-box way to get the percentiles to > > correspond to the range itself rather than the concentration of distinct > > values? > > Then it is not percentiles. And I don't know of any build-in function that > returns them directly. > > But as you have the min and max, you can just do > 25%: (max-min)*0.25+min > 50%: (max-min)*0.5+min > 75%: (max-min)*0.75+min > > But of course, that won't guarantee that you match the distinct values. If > you want that, you'll have to iterate the list of distinct values (hope > it's not too large) and pick out the nearest ones. > > - Toke Eskildsen >
