PHP | stats_stat_percentile() Function

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP stats_stat_percentile() function.

The stats_stat_percentile() function returns the percentile value.

Syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

float stats_stat_percentile( array $arr, float $perc )

READ: PHP | stats_stat_binomial_coef() Function

Parameter Details

Sr.No	Parameter	Description
1	arr	The input array
2	perc	The percentile

Return Value

This built-in PHP function returns the perc-th percentile value of the array arr.

Dependencies

This built-in function was first introduced in statistics extension (PHP version 4.0.0 and PEAR v1.4.0). In this tutorial guide, we used the latest release of stats-2.0.3 (PHP v7.0.0 or newer and PEAR version 1.4.0 or newer).

Example1

The following example computes the 50-th percentile value of the array -

<?php
   var_dump(stats_stat_percentile(array(1, 3, 2, 4), 50));
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

float(2)

Example2

The following example computes the 50-th percentile value of the array -

<?php
   var_dump(stats_stat_percentile(array(1, 3, 5, 2, 4), 50));
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

float(3)

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be discussing about the stats_stat_powersum() Function.

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