‘The percentile issue (On our Wednesday class I've made the following two claims. Claim 1. zy is the ;4; - 100th percentile of the data, according to our rule of the percentile calculation. You can easily make sure that this is the case. Claim 2. Now let p be a number between 4; - 100 and + - 100 (see the Fig. below). The p-th percentile calculated by the definition is Baan + (as — ae): [Gain + 1)— A a) You can make sure that the point (p,r) lies on the straight line passing through the points (2_, 4; 100) and mat (x, #4 - 100). (see Fig. below) Conclusion. The first claim implies that the function p(x) is well defined at the points 2),-++ ,2». Claim 2 says that the rule of calculation of a percentile (1) we study is actually the linear extension of the function p(x) that was defined first at x1,--- ,an: Tam grateful to students who pointed out that in my formula 1 T gave in class —k was missing, AP ee