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Percentile of a Value in a Data Set

In a given dataset, what is the percentile (rank) of a given data value? That is, how many or what percent of the data values are below or at the given data value.

For this, we need to import the stats function from the SciPy library.

Adapted from Python for Introductory Statistics, by Simon Aman (Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition with live in-browser code cells. License: CC-BY-4.0.

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