percentile

Hello everyone, I am new to this forum and do not have a strong Statistical background. Recently I had to deal with the issue of averaging of percentiles. I noticed that in the transcripts of its students, my school is displaying the percentile in each subject and ultimately the percentile of...

I am struggling to understand the second formula. I understand the first formula. I don't understand why F(x) is greater than or equal to y in the second formula. Shouldn't the sign be similar to the first formula?

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Hi All, Is it possible to have two lists of numbers with the same number of elements and same average, where one has a left-skewed distribution and the other has a right-skewed distribution and the 25h percentile of the numbers with the right-skewed distribution is smaller than the 25th...

Hello all, I work on a cross sectional data for six years that has log wage information of workers. In order to show how log wage at different percentiles changed from the year 2000 to 2005, I want to make a graph that has 10th,20th,..,90th percentiles on the x-axis and corresponding log...

Hey there, I am new to STATA and would like to solve the following problem: Lets say that I have variable "consumption of cereals" and variable "net income". I would like to find out how much of cereals is consumed in average by the poorest 10% and the richest 10% of the population in my...

I am trying to get 0.05percentiles (median 095 CI) out of the bootstrap procedure in Statistica. I found the following command for median of my population: > Use file name > Sample boot(perm number,number of samples)/ median confi = 0.95 > Cstatistics variables Can anyone suggest what...

Hello, I am new to this forum, and I need some helps in bootstrapping. I am using Matlab. So, here's the study design: I have three groups (Group1, Group2, Group3), 30 subjects/group each. They all have some brain imaging scans (FDG-PET). Within each group, I calculated some parameter...

Note: this is not homework. I am trying to make sure I understand the differences between percentiles and z-score. Please tell me if the following compare/contrast statements are correct. Thanks, Mike 1. The 95th percentile is the value such that 95% of all observations are below...