Re: st: question about quantiles in summarize

[Tom Trikalinos <ttrikalin@mac.com>]

To see how it works, first sort your values:
  1.    -1.4
  2.    -1.2
  3.   -1.11
  4.   -1.08
  5.   -1.08
  6.   -1.08
  7.    -.75
  8.    -.73
<---------------p25=(-.73-.57)/2=-.65
  9.    -.57
 10.    -.57
 11.    -.57
 12.    -.51
 13.    -.48
 14.    -.48
 15.     -.4
 16.     -.3
 17.    -.09
 18.    -.07
 19.     .47
 20.     .49
 21.     .49
 22.     .54
 23.     .67
 24.     .69
<---------------p75=(.69 + .78)/2 = .735
 25.     .78
 26.     .87
 27.     .94
 28.     .96
 29.    1.15
 30.     1.2
 31.    1.46
 32.    1.48

Tom Trikalinos, MD
ttrikalin@mac.com

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