Re: 99th percentile

[Jay Link <jlink@ilbbs.com>]

Look up "bell curves".

> Does someone have a resource for explaining how the 99th percentile of
> a group of values is found? My google searches have just sucked at finding
> a good definition of what the 99th percentile truly is and how it would be
> found.

"The 99th percentile is the smallest number that is greater that 99% of
the numbers in a given set."

http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Quizzes/curve.html
http://www.stats.org/newsletters/0009/standard.htm
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~jdemaio/1107/Chap5.htm
http://glass.ed.asu.edu/stats/lesson3/


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