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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/function_base.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/function_base.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/function_base.py b/numpy/lib/function_base.py index 277ae3dc4..22371a038 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/function_base.py +++ b/numpy/lib/function_base.py @@ -3980,8 +3980,8 @@ def percentile(a, a : array_like of real numbers Input array or object that can be converted to an array. q : array_like of float - Percentile or sequence of percentiles to compute, which must be between - 0 and 100 inclusive. + Percentage or sequence of percentages for the percentiles to compute. + Values must be between 0 and 100 inclusive. axis : {int, tuple of int, None}, optional Axis or axes along which the percentiles are computed. The default is to compute the percentile(s) along a flattened @@ -4280,8 +4280,8 @@ def quantile(a, a : array_like of real numbers Input array or object that can be converted to an array. q : array_like of float - Quantile or sequence of quantiles to compute, which must be between - 0 and 1 inclusive. + Probability or sequence of probabilities for the quantiles to compute. + Values must be between 0 and 1 inclusive. axis : {int, tuple of int, None}, optional Axis or axes along which the quantiles are computed. The default is to compute the quantile(s) along a flattened version of the array. @@ -4335,8 +4335,8 @@ def quantile(a, Returns ------- quantile : scalar or ndarray - If `q` is a single quantile and `axis=None`, then the result - is a scalar. If multiple quantiles are given, first axis of + If `q` is a single probability and `axis=None`, then the result + is a scalar. If multiple probabilies levels are given, first axis of the result corresponds to the quantiles. The other axes are the axes that remain after the reduction of `a`. If the input contains integers or floats smaller than ``float64``, the output |