Timeline for Difference between using a z-score or a percentiles to summarize data in normal and skewed distributions
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 17:05 | comment | added | Nick Cox | What you're calling the cumulative percentile is often called a percentile rank (in practice, often given in percent terms, not as a proportion) and could also be called a cumulative probability. It's not the same as percentiles as defined in the OP's link (and more generally). Such percentiles are values on the scale of the data, such as the 1% point, 50% point or the 99% point for heights or weights, which would be height or weight measurements such those fractions of the data have lower values. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:56 | history | answered | AdamO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |