Percentiles



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%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

vals = np.random.normal(0, 0.5, 10000)

plt.hist(vals, 50)
plt.show()



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np.percentile(vals, 50)









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0.0074750548545281818



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np.percentile(vals, 90)









    Out[3]:





0.62478623578787418



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np.percentile(vals, 20)









    Out[4]:





-0.41634904286746799

Activity

Experiment with different parameters when creating the test data. What effect does it have on the percentiles?



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