Re: r.stats.quantile: does the 50th percentile equal to the median?
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Thank you Markus! --- On 2021-01-23 21:20, Markus Metz wrote: > 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