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[(Ted Harding)]

On 31-Aug-04 Paolo Tommasini wrote:
> Hi this is a very simple question ! if a have a set of date like
> x=c(1,2,3,4,4,5,6,8,7,8,8)
> 
> how can I find out the percentile of 7 ?

To some extent this depends on precisely how you want to define
"percentile", but if you adopt the interpretation as "percentage
of data not exceeding X" then

   100*sum(x<=7)/length(x)

will give it to you.

Best wishes,
Ted.


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