Talk:Percentile

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This page is currently slated to be merged with "Quantile", but I really think "Percentile" deserves its own page. The concept is important enough that I wanted to look it up, anyway. --Unregistered Wikipedia-reader, 20 Nov 2004

What is the purpose of the note about Persian translation? --Eve Teschlemacher 19:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Which english reader is interested in the persian script!? I cannot see the relevance and therefore would delete this information or move it to a trivia section. -- 89.48.108.176 13:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Both this page as Percentile rank have the same chinese interwiki, chinese site only has an interwiki to Percentile rank, not to this page. What's the right one, or are they both right? 129.125.155.228 07:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Why are percentiles defined as proportions [0 1], only to be discussed as whole numbers in the range [0 100]?

A common use of the term nth percentile seems to be (based on a recent NYTimes article) the portion with scores in the extremal n%. The article was talking about a gifted program taking those in the top fifth or tenth percentile, i.e. the top 1/20 or 1/10. The definition in the article doesn't seem to admit this usage.