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1981 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Computing Percentiles of Large Data Sets

verfasst von : Jo Ann Howell

Erschienen in: Computer Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on the Interface

Verlag: Springer US

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We describe an algorithm for finding percentiles of large data sets (those having 100,000 or more points). This algorithm does not involve sorting the entire data set. Instead, we sample the data and obtain a guess for the percentile. Then, using the guess we extract a subset of the original data through which we search for the true percentile.

Metadaten
Titel
Computing Percentiles of Large Data Sets
verfasst von
Jo Ann Howell
Copyright-Jahr
1981
Verlag
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9464-8_58