Hi Rudi,

Take a look at ?ecdf

HTH,
Jorge


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM, rudi <> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> can anyone help me to figure out how to compute the percentile of an
> individual observation with respect to a reference distribution.
>
> What I mean is. Let's assume I have a vector consisting of 10 numbers
> {3,5,8,1,9,5,4,3,5.5,7} and I want figure out what percentile the
> number 4.9 corresponds to. I failed to find any reference to such a
> function, although I would assume this must frequently be necessary.
>
> Thanks in advance for you help.
>
> /Rudi
>
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