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Re: compute quartiles of a distribution [message #77927 is a reply to message #77917]

Mon, 17 October 2011 18:26

David Fanning
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bing999 writes:

> I have sample of data (which distribution is unknown) of mean M. I
> would like to calculate the quartiles with IDL, i.e what is the value
> of Q for which 25% (or 75%) of the sample is comprised between [M-Q;M
> +Q] ?
> Do you know a routine which does that?

cgBoxPlot.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: Jeremy Bailin on Tue, 18 October 2011 21:32
		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: Jeremy Bailin on Tue, 18 October 2011 12:48
		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: Brian Wolven on Tue, 18 October 2011 10:38
		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: Thibault Garel on Tue, 18 October 2011 09:36
		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: David Fanning on Tue, 18 October 2011 09:25
		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: Thibault Garel on Tue, 18 October 2011 09:12
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		Re: compute quartiles of a distribution By: David Fanning on Mon, 17 October 2011 18:26
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