Implemented calculation of percentiles and Tukey hinges

[pspp-builds.git] / doc / statistics.texi

diff --git a/doc/statistics.texi b/doc/statistics.texi
index 19fe6d5abcab12f21db907760203f97999fda7b8..56c3794929cea18cc723138ec1160f6321af3b4a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/statistics.texi
+++ b/doc/statistics.texi
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ EXAMINE
         /COMPARE=@{GROUPS,VARIABLES@}
         /ID=@{case_number, var_name@}
         /@{TOTAL,NOTOTAL@}
+        /PERCENTILE=[value_list]=@{HAVERAGE, WAVERAGE, ROUND, AEMPIRICAL, EMPIRICAL @}
         /MISSING=@{LISTWISE, PAIRWISE@} [@{EXCLUDE, INCLUDE@}] 
                [@{NOREPORT,REPORT@}]
 
@@ -261,6 +262,11 @@ The PLOT subcommand specifies which plots are to be produced if any.
 The CINTERVAL subcommand specifies the confidence interval to use in
 calculation of the descriptives command.  The default it 95%.
 
+The PERCENTILES subcommand specifies which percentiles are to be calculated, 
+and which algorithm to use for calculating them.  The default is to
+calculate the 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, 95 percentiles using the
+HAVERAGE algorithm.
+
 The TOTAL and NOTOTAL subcommands are mutually exclusive.  If NOTOTAL
 is given and factors have been specified in the VARIABLES subcommand,
 then then statistics for the unfactored dependent variables are