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percentiles.pro

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result = percentiles(values, conflimit=conflimit)

Determines what range of a distribution lies within a percentile range.

Return value

A 2-element vector of values that encompass a fraction CONFLIMIT of the distribution. For example, if CONFLIMIT=0.68 then Result gives the 16th and 85th percentiles.

Parameters

values in: Array containing the distribution.

Keywords

conflimit in: The fraction of the distribution encompassed. Default: 0.68

Examples

    IDL> a = 0.01*FINDGEN(101)
    IDL> PRINT, PERCENTILES(a, CONFLIMIT=0.8)
        0.1000000     0.900000

Author information

History:: Written by: Jeremy Bailin 12 June 2008 Public release in JBIU

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