[R-sig-eco] p-Function for Empirical Distributions

Peter Solymos solymos at ualberta.ca
Sun Sep 5 02:32:54 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Jane Shevtsov <jane.eco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does R have a p-function for empirical distributions? In other words,
> how can I find out what fraction of the values in my data set are
> smaller than a given value?

Maybe
sum(x <= crit) / length(x)
Cheers,
Peter

Péter Sólymos
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Department of Biological Sciences
CW 405, Biological Sciences Bldg
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada
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