Re: Percentiles (still hurting my brain)

John Darrington <[email protected]> writes:

> No matter how many times I look at it, the algorithm that Ben posted
> makes no sense to me.

I think the solution is then to ignore the algorithm I posted--it
is quite probably entirely bogus--and try to implement something
that gives the right results.  If those results match the results
that SPSS gives for the same data, so much the better.
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