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I would be happy with both possibilities, but these are entirely different tasks, and if we have to manage large data, please state how large, and adapt the current solutions accordingly. All current solutions imply the dataset lies entirely in memory. For "usual" machines, that means the dataset is actually rather small.
Hailholyghost gave his example above, here is another one: most of my work is done on a business PC with 8GB RAM and SAS/Stata/R/Python (and I suspect most professional statisticians work on a daily basis on that kind of machine, with that kind of software). Some of my work is done on a SAS VA server with
While both tasks described above are acceptable, I personally would be
[[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 20:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
==Phix test result glitch ?==
I noticed, in passing, that the first of the three test results in the Phix example shows the value 43 where other code (and a quick test just now with the the built-in R function) is returning 42.5
Perhaps some kind of edge case that might be worth checking ? Or just a variant interpretation ? [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 08:53, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
==R vs Wikipedia==
[[wp:Fivenum]] uses quartiles defined as members of set of input values. The R definition differs. Could do with a definitive definition or an explanation of the variants as part of this task, as, as others have stated, "do what R does" highlights issues. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 13:56, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
:[[wp:Percentile#Definitions]] shows common methods of computing percentiles. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 08:04, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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