[R] z-score to percentile, and back again (Normal)

Jeff Newmiller jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us
Fri Sep 28 03:47:40 CEST 2012


?Distributions

The more general term for percentile is quantile.

help.search("quantile")
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Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com> wrote:

>In R, what is the best way to convert z-scores (Normal distribution) to
>a percentiles, and vice-versa.
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>(I'll be looking to do the same with other distributions eventually.)
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