[Python-ideas] Users of statistics software, what quantile functionality would be useful for you?

Steven D'Aprano writes:

using other languages) and specifically use quantiles, what sort of functionality would be useful to you?

For example:

- evenly-spaced quantiles (say, at 0.25, 0.5, 0.75)?

Yes.

- unevenly-spaced quantiles (0.25, 0.8, 0.9, 0.995)?

Rarely.

- one quantile at a time?

Yes.

- any specific definition?

My students' data is qualitative survey (Likert scale or categorical) or government-issue, "any" is "good enough for gov't work".

- quantiles of a distribution?

You mean the inverse of the cumulative distribution function? Very rarely.

- anything else?

Not that I can think of. Thank you for this addition! Steve