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Re: numerical value of Quantile

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• Subject: [mg6770] Re: [mg6660] numerical value of Quantile
• From: "Luis F. Tavera" <tavera at cs.uiuc.edu>
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 02:15:06 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Sherman,

Thanks for your response to my posting. Actually, the posting works
just fine as it is. The problem was that I inadvertently redefined
(erased) the Quantile command and that was the reason it was not
working.

Thanks again,

Luis

>>>>> "Sherman" == Preferred Customer <sherman.reed at worldnet.att.net> writes:

    Sherman> Luis, you must load Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` and
    Sherman> then your code will work just fine.

    Sherman> Sherman C. Reed sherman.reed at worldnet.att.net

    Sherman> ----------
    >> From: Luis F. Tavera <tavera at bugle.cs.uiuc.edu> To:
    >> Subject: [mg6660] numerical value of
    >> Quantile Date: Wednesday, April 09, 1997 8:15 AM
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Does anybody know why can't I get the numerical value of the
    >> following ?
    >> 
    >> Thanks a lot,
    >> 
    >> Luis
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> <<Statistics`NormalDistribution`;
    >> 
    >> nd = NormalDistribution[0, 1]; Quantile[nd, 0.5] //N
    >> 
    >> 
    >> out[1]= Quantile[NormalDistribution[0,1.],0.5]
    >> 
    >> --- tavera at cs.uiuc.edu
    >> http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/People/tavera