1 /* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
2 Copyright (C) 2004, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 #ifndef __PERCENTILES_H__
18 #define __PERCENTILES_H__
22 #include "order-stats.h"
24 /* To calculate a percentile:
26 - Create a "struct percentile" with percentile_create().
27 - Feed in the data with order_stats_accumulate() or
28 order_stats_accumulate_idx(). The data must be in sorted order: if
29 necessary, use one of the sorting functions from sort.h to sort them.
30 - Obtain the percentile with percentile_calculate().
31 - Destroy the data structure with statistic_destroy().
34 /* The algorithm used to calculate percentiles */
46 struct order_stats parent;
61 struct percentile *percentile_create (double p, double W);
62 double percentile_calculate (const struct percentile *, enum pc_alg);
64 #endif /* percentiles.h */