Re: 95th percentile of an array.

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On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Adam Richardson <simpleshot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the nearest rank computation, you could use the following:
>
> $arr =
> array(12,89,65,23,90,99,9,15,56,67,3,52,78,12,10,88,77,77,77,77,77,77,77);
> sort($arr);
> $score_representing_95th_percentile = $arr[round((95/100) * count($arr) -
> .5)];
> echo $score_representing_95th_percentile; // 90
>

Perfect, exactly what I was looking for.

thank you.

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