Re: r.stats.quantile: does the 50th percentile equal to the median?
Markus Metz <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 2:51 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi devs, > > does the default `percentiles=50` in `r.stats.quantile` equal to the > median? > Is the definition exclusive or inclusive? The median is commonly defined as the 50% percentile, the "middle" item of a sorted dataset. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median In GRASS, calculations of the median and the 50% percentile are identical. HTH, Markus M > > > Thank you for any insight, Nikos > -- > > See also > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile > - https://math.stackexchange.com/q/2048470/445399 > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev