.netCHARTING v10.5 Documentation


dotnetCHARTING Namespace > FinancialEngine Class > Percentile Method : Percentile(SeriesCollection,ElementValue,Int32) Method
A collection of series objects. For example, to evaluate this indicator for two series you will need to pass a series collection containing this two series.
Specifies the particular element value (for example High, Low, Close or Open of the financial time series) which will be considered within this indicator evaluation. In particular, if you wish to use the element value high then you should pass the parameter High. In a similarly fashion if you wish to use the low, close or open, then you should pass the parameter Low, Close, Open, respectively.
A value between 1 and 100 which reprezent the percentile of the series.
Percentile(SeriesCollection,ElementValue,Int32) Method
Calculates the n-th percentile of the series.
Syntax
'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Shared Function Percentile( _
   ByVal sc As SeriesCollection, _
   ByVal elementValue As ElementValue, _
   ByVal percentile As Integer _
) As Series
'Usage
 
Dim sc As SeriesCollection
Dim elementValue As ElementValue
Dim percentile As Integer
Dim value As Series
 
value = FinancialEngine.Percentile(sc, elementValue, percentile)

Parameters

sc
A collection of series objects. For example, to evaluate this indicator for two series you will need to pass a series collection containing this two series.
elementValue
Specifies the particular element value (for example High, Low, Close or Open of the financial time series) which will be considered within this indicator evaluation. In particular, if you wish to use the element value high then you should pass the parameter High. In a similarly fashion if you wish to use the low, close or open, then you should pass the parameter Low, Close, Open, respectively.
percentile
A value between 1 and 100 which reprezent the percentile of the series.
Remarks
Recall that the percentile is the value such that at least interest-percent of the data set items are less than or equal to this value, or equivalently if at least (100-interest) percent of the items are greater than or equal to this value.

Remarks:

  1. The 50-th percentile is the measure of centrality of a data set known as the median. The median can also be evaluated using Median(String,Series,ElementValue).
  2. The 25-th, 50-th, 75-th percentiles are often referred to as the 1-st, 2-nd (median) and 3-rd quartile respectively. The term quartile refers to the fact that these three values will roughly divide the data set considered into four equal parts.

Requirements

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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