Joined-up percentiles

Although the quartiles are effective summaries of many data sets, sometimes other percentiles are more important. For example, in climatic data, the 10th and 90th percentiles describe more extreme weather events. These can be joined in bands to compare ordered groups.

Monthly rainfall in Mililla

Tables of percentiles

Percentiles are often presented in tabular form as well as graphically.

Monthly rainfall in Mililla