function y = wprctile(X,p,varargin) %WPRCTILE Returns weighted percentiles of a sample with six algorithms. % The idea is to give more emphasis in some examples of data as compared to % others by giving more weight. For example, we could give lower weights to % the outliers. The motivation to write this function is to compute percentiles % for Monte Carlo simulations where some simulations are very bad (in terms of % goodness of fit between simulated and actual value) than the others and to % give the lower weights based on some goodness of fit criteria. % % USAGE: % y = WPRCTILE(X,p) % y = WPRCTILE(X,p,w) % y = WPRCTILE(X,p,w,type) % % INPUT: % X - vector or matrix of the sample data % p - scalar or a vector of percent values between 0 and 100 % % w - positive weight vector for the sample data. Length of w must be % equal to either number of rows or columns of X. If X is matrix, same % weight vector w is used for all columns (DIM=1)or for all rows % (DIM=2). If the weights are equal, then WPRCTILE is same as PRCTILE. % % type - an integer between 4 and 9 selecting one of the 6 quantile algorithms. % Type 4: p(k) = k/n. That is, linear interpolation of the empirical cdf. % Type 5: p(k) = (k-0.5)/n. That is a piecewise linear function where % the knots are the values midway through the steps of the % empirical cdf. This is popular amongst hydrologists. (default) % PRCTILE also uses this formula. % Type 6: p(k) = k/(n+1). Thus p(k) = E[F(x[k])]. % This is used by Minitab and by SPSS. % Type 7: p(k) = (k-1)/(n-1). In this case, p(k) = mode[F(x[k])]. % This is used by S. % Type 8: p(k) = (k-1/3)/(n+1/3). Then p(k) =~ median[F(x[k])]. % The resulting quantile estimates are approximately % median-unbiased regardless of the distribution of x. % Type 9: p(k) = (k-3/8)/(n+1/4). The resulting quantile estimates are % approximately unbiased for the expected order statistics % if x is normally distributed. % % Interpolating between the points pk and X(k) gives the sample % quantile. Here pk is plotting position and X(k) is order statistics of % x such that x(k)< x(k+1) < x(k+2)... % % OUTPUT: % y - percentiles of the values in X % When X is a vector, y is the same size as p, and y(i) contains the % P(i)-th percentile. % When X is a matrix, WPRCTILE calculates percentiles along dimension DIM % which is based on: if size(X,1) == length(w), DIM = 1; % elseif size(X,2) == length(w), DIM = 2; % % EXAMPLES: % w = rand(1000,1); % y = wprctile(x,[2.5 25 50 75 97.5],w,5); % % here if the size of x is 1000-by-50, then y will be size of 6-by-50 % % if x is 50-by-1000, then y will be of the size of 50-by-6 % % Please note that this version of WPRCTILE will not work with NaNs values and % planned to update in near future to handle NaNs values as missing values. % % References: Rob J. Hyndman and Yanan Fan, 1996, Sample Quantiles in Statistical % Package, The American Statistician, 50, 4. % % HISTORY: % version 1.0.0, Release 2007/10/16: Initial release % version 1.1.0, Release 2008/04/02: Implementation of other 5 algorithms and % other minor improvements of code % % % I appreciate the bug reports and suggestions. % See also: PRCTILE (Statistical Toolbox) % Author: Durga Lal Shrestha % UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands % eMail: durgals@hotmail.com % Website: http://www.hi.ihe.nl/durgalal/index.htm % Copyright 2004-2007 Durga Lal Shrestha. % $First created: 16-Oct-2007 % $Revision: 1.1.0 $ $Date: 02-Apr-2008 13:40:29 $ % *********************************************************************** %% Input arguments check % error(nargchk(2,4,nargin)) % if ~isvector(p) || numel(p) == 0 % error('wprctile:BadPercents', ... % 'P must be a scalar or a non-empty vector.'); % elseif any(p < 0 | p > 100) || ~isreal(p) % error('wprctile:BadPercents', ... % 'P must take real values between 0 and 100'); % end % if ndims(X)>2 % error('wprctile:InvalidNumberofDimensions','X Must be 2D.') % end % Default weight vector if isvector(X) w = ones(length(X),1); else w = ones(size(X,1),1); % works as dimension 1 end type = 5; if nargin > 2 if ~isempty(varargin{1}) w = varargin{1}; % weight vector end if nargin >3 type = varargin{2}; % type to compute quantile end end if ~isvector(w)|| any(w<0) error('wprctile:InvalidWeight', ... 'w must vecor and values should be greater than 0'); end % Check if there are NaN in any of the input nans = isnan(X); if any(nans(:)) || any(isnan(p))|| any(isnan(w)) error('wprctile:NaNsInput',['This version of WPRCTILE will not work with ' ... 'NaNs values in any input and planned to update in near future to ' ... 'handle NaNs values as missing values.']); end %% Figure out which dimension WPRCTILE will work along using weight vector w n = length(w); [nrows, ncols] = size(X); if nrows==n dim = 1; elseif ncols==n dim = 2; else error('wprctile:InvalidDimension', ... 'length of w must be equal to either number of rows or columns of X'); end %% Work along DIM = 1 i.e. columswise, convert back later if needed using tflag tflag = false; % flag to note transpose if dim==2 X = X'; tflag = true; end ncols = size(X,2); np = length(p); y = zeros(np,ncols); % Change w to column vector w = w(:); % normalise weight vector such that sum of the weight vector equals to n w = w*n/sum(w); %% Work on each column separately because of weight vector for i=1:ncols [sortedX, ind] = sort(X(:,i)); % sort the data sortedW = w(ind); % rearrange the weight according to ind k = cumsum(sortedW); % cumulative weight switch type % different algorithm to compute percentile case 4 pk = k/n; case 5 pk = (k-sortedW/2)/n; case 6 pk = k/(n+1); case 7 pk = (k-sortedW)/(n-1); case 8 pk = (k-sortedW/3)/(n+1/3); case 9 pk = (k-sortedW*3/8)/(n+1/4); otherwise error('wprctile:InvalidType', ... 'Integer to select one of the six quantile algorithm should be between 4 to 9.') end % to avoid NaN for outside the range, the minimum or maximum values in X are % assigned to percentiles for percent values outside that range. q = [0;pk;1]; xx = [sortedX(1); sortedX; sortedX(end)]; % Interpolation between q and xx for given value of p y(:,i) = interp1q(q,xx,p(:)./100); end %% Transpose data back for DIM = 2 to the orginal dimension of X % if p is row vector and X is vector then return y as row vector if tflag || (min(size(X))==1 && size(p,1)==1) y=y'; end