Statistics, Department of

The R Journal
Date of this Version
12-2016
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2016) 8(2); Editor: Michael Lawrence
Abstract
Quantiles play a fundamental role in statistics. The quantile function defines the distribution of a random variable and, thus, provides a way to describe the data that is specular but equivalent to that given by the corresponding cumulative distribution function. There are many advantages in working with quantiles, starting from their properties. The renewed interest in their usage seen in the last years is due to the theoretical, methodological, and software contributions that have broadened their applicability. This paper presents the R package Qtools, a collection of utilities for unconditional and conditional quantiles.
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Copyright 2016, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported