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Defining quantiles over a weighted sample

I have a weighted sample, for which I wish to calculate quantiles.1 Ideally, where the weights are equal (whether = 1 or otherwise), the results would be consistent with those of ...
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Online algorithm for mean absolute deviation and large data set

I have a little problem that is making me freaking out. I have to write procedure for an online acquisition process of a multivariate time series. At every time interval (for example 1 second), I get ...
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Is it possible to accumulate a set of statistics that describes a large number of samples such that I can then produce a boxplot?

I must clarify immediately that I am a practicing software developer, not a statistician, and that my college stats class was a very long time ago… That said, I would like to know if there is a ...