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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox
Sent: 29 February 2008 18:19
To: 'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Quantile question
Meta-erratum: The URL concerned specifies two errata.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Nick Cox
See
http://www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au/~hyndman/papers/quantile.htm
for not only one of those references but an erratum too.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Every now and again there are amusing papers in The American
Statistician highlighting the numerous
slightly different ways used in software of defining quantiles and, a
related issue, defining the
quantities shown in a box plot.
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