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2011 Sep 28
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Negative Quartile
Hello, I have a doubt, but it is more statistic than just about R: How the people deal usually with negative percentile and quartile? In my concrete case, I want to know the distribution of an error, so the nearest it is to 0 the better (I think it would be optimun to have the nearest values to 0 in the lower percentiles). The best result would be making the percentile of the absolute value (without sign), but the sing is also important, and I need to keep it. This results in the big negative values to be in the lower percentiles, which are usually understand...