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Glossary: Probability for ML

Percentile

Also written: np.percentile, ppf, .ppf, quantile

The value with a given share of the data below it, such as the 95th percentile. In scipy.stats it's `.ppf(q)`, and for data it's `np.percentile`.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

Cumulative distribution function (cdf)