[SciPy-dev] percentileofscore in svn

[josef.pktd@gmai...]

To ariel.rokem (I don't know your email address)

You beat me in correcting percentileofscore,
however, your version still has a bias for multiple ties.

>>> percentileofscorein([1,1,1,1],1)  # yours
62.5
>>> percentileofscore([1,1,1,1],1)  # wikipedia
50.0
>>> percentileofscore([1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2],1)  # wikipedia
25.0
>>> percentileofscorein([1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2],1)  # yours
30.0
>>> percentileofscorein([1,1,1],1)  # yours
66.666666666666657
>>> percentileofscore([1,1,1],1)  # wikipedia
50.0
>>> percentileofscorein([1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2],2)  # yours
80.0
>>> percentileofscore([1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2],2)  # wikipedia
75.0

Since we were discussing definitions, do you have a definition of your method?
I'm not too convinced of the wikipedia version, but it looks like a consistent
definition

I renamed my version temporarily to percentileofscore2

Josef