On 14/10/2008 5:30 PM, dleong at analogic.com wrote:> Full_Name: David Leong
> Version: 2.7.2
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (12.187.86.2)
>
>
> It appears for the fivenum function, there is a strait average between two
> ranked samples. This should be a linear interpolation between ranks.
Not according to the documentation. This is not a bug.
If you want quantiles, use the quantile function. fivenum() is
documented to give Tukey's five number summary (minimum, lower-hinge,
median, upper-hinge, maximum).
Duncan Murdoch
> 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.
>
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