Percentile Calculation
Medium
statistics
JPMorgan
Goldman Sachs
Compute the p-th percentile of a list of numbers using linear interpolation.
Example
percentile([15, 20, 35, 40, 50], 40)
# => 27.0
Use the formula: index = (p/100) * (n-1), then interpolate between the two surrounding values.
Test Cases
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