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Overloads Public Shared Function Percentile( _ ByVal elementName As String, _ ByVal s As Series, _ ByVal percentile As Integer _ ) As Element |
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public static Element Percentile( string elementName, Series s, int percentile ) |
Parameters
- elementName
- The name of the element which will be displayed on the chart, i.e. its label.
- s
- A statistical series.
- percentile
- A value between 1 and 100 which reprezent the value of the percetile.
Recall that the percentile is the value such that at least
interest
-percent of the data set items
are less than or equal to this value, or equivalently if at least (100-interest)
percent of the items are greater than or equal to this value.
Remarks:
- The
50
-th percentile is the measure of centrality of a data set known as the median. The median can also be evaluated using Median. - The
25
-th,50
-th,75
-th percentiles are often referred to as the1
-st,2
-nd (median) and3
-rd quartile respectively. The term quartile refers to the fact that these three values will roughly divide the data set considered into four equal parts.