# Adapted from https://github.com/thirtysixthspan/descriptive_statistics # Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Derrick Parkhurst (derrick.parkhurst@gmail.com) # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal # in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights # to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell # copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is # furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. class Array def percentile(p) values = self.sort if values.empty? return [] elsif values.size == 1 return values.first elsif p == 100 return values.last end rank = p / 100.0 * (values.size - 1) lower, upper = values[rank.floor, 2] lower + (upper - lower) * (rank - rank.floor) end end