[SciPy-user] scipy.stats.percentileofscore : something strange

[Matthieu Brucher]

2007/12/13, Samuel GARCIA <sgarcia at olfac.univ-lyon1.fr>:
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> Matthieu Brucher a écrit :
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> 2007/12/13, Samuel GARCIA <sgarcia at olfac.univ-lyon1.fr>:
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> >  Hi all,
> > I found something strange in scipy.stats.percentileofscore
> > In [1]: from scipy import *
> > In [2]: a = rand(10000)
> > In [3]: stats.percentileofscore(a,.2)
> > Out[3]: 20.0157565073
> >          This OK.
> > In [4]: stats.percentileofscore(a,.0002)
> > Out[4]: 102.898311442
> >             This is strange !!!!!
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> This may be a bug
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If you put 0 for the score, a number greater than 100 is returned, so this
is a bug. But for 0.0002, your percentile will be null, you can change the
histbins value (default=10) for a better precision.


I expect this to raise this exception, you cannot take a percentile outside
> [0, 1] (1.4 = 140%)
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> I think that it should return 100 if superior to rigtht limit and 0 if
> inferior to left limit.
> No ?
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My mistake, I was confused by the interval. I think you are right, but
perhaps someone else will give the answer to this behaviour.
I think you should open a ticket on the TRAC to keep track of this bug.

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