Percentile

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Purpose

Finds percentile point (similar to MEDIAN).

Synopsis

s = percentile(x,y)

Description

PERCENTILE finds the point in the data x where the fraction y has lower values. Input x is a MxN data array, and y is a percentile where 0<y<1. The output is a 1 by N vector s of percentile points (PERCENTILE works on the columns of x.

See Also

median