From dleong at analogic.com  Tue Oct 14 23:30:09 2008
From: dleong at analogic.com (dleong at analogic.com)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:30:09 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] fivenum accuracy (PR#13164)
Message-ID: <20081014213009.8B6C8282EFC1@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>

Full_Name: David Leong
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It appears for the fivenum function, there is a strait average between two
ranked samples. This should be a linear interpolation between ranks.
For the following data set

#data
CaCO3<-c(130.8,129.9,131.5,131.2,129.5,132.7,131.5,127.8,133.7,132.2,134.8,131.7,133.9,129.8,131.4,128.8,132.7,132.8,131.4,131.3)

fivenum reports 127.80 130.35 131.45 132.70 134.80

130.35 should be 130.125. The other are correct.

For the 20 points, the rank is (20+1)/4=5.25 so the weighting factor is 0.25 not
0.5.



[Rd] fivenum accuracy (PR#13164)
dleong at analogic.com