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Line 32: 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)