Sample Quantiles in Statistical Packages

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 361-365

  Hyndman, Rob J ^a   Fan, Yanan ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b World Sci Publishing Co Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Percentiles; Quartiles; Sample quantiles; Statistical computer packages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030336504     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10473566     Document Type: Article

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