Document the argument expected for percentile-related functions #194
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Some people (notably me) would expect to provide a percentile as the P-th percentile. For example, to get the 75th percentile, I would use m.Percentile(75). However, the correct use is m.Percentile(0.75). This commit just adds an example to each percentile-related function to avoid this error.
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A complementary resolution would be to panic when value is not between 0 and 1. |
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Some people (notably me) would expect to provide a percentile as the
P-th percentile. For example, to get the 75th percentile, I would use
m.Percentile(75). However, the correct use is m.Percentile(0.75). This
commit just adds an example to each percentile-related function to avoid
this error.