Percentiles https://davidwills.us/stat200/percentiles.html Paste the Chicago commutes into Percentiles this percentile: 25%ile=_______ AKA:____ 50%ile=_______ AKA:____ AKA:______ 75%ile=_______ AKA:____ 0%ile=_____ AKA:____ 99%ile=_____ AKA:____ 15 is at what percentile:_____ The next number in the data set is 20, what percentile is it at:______ How many 15's are in the data set:_____ When there's not many numbers or there is a lot of duplicate values, percentiles are fuzzy/confusing. The data is (trying) to be divided into 100 -iles. Generate a data set of 1000 whole numbers normally distributed with mean 500 and SD 100. https://davidwills.us/math103/distro_generator.html Copy and paste into Percentiles page. With 1000 numbers, each one percentile is about 10 numbers. Some percentiles might be fictitious numbers. 25%ile=_______ AKA:____ 50%ile=_______ AKA:____ AKA:______ 75%ile=_______ AKA:____ 0%ile=_____ AKA:____ 99%ile=_____ What is the max value of this data:______ Ah-ha! So try 99.9%ile=______ One SD above the mean is ~600. What is 600's percentile:_______ One SD below the mean is ~400. What is 400's percentile:_______ (If your data does not contain either of those numbers, try 599 or 601, 399 or 401...) Of this normally distributed data, how much is within one SD of the mean:_____% The empirical rule says 68% of normal data is +-1 SD of the mean. Two SDs above the mean is ~700. What is 700's percentile:_______ Two SDs below the mean is ~300. What is 300's percentile:_______ (If your data does not contain either of those numbers, try 699 or 701, 299 or 301...) Of this normally distributed data, how much is within two SDs of the mean:_____% The empirical rule says 95% of normal data is +-2 SD of the mean.