NORMALD_ICDF (LEFT/CENTER/RIGHT)

[Wes Loewer]

(03-01-2020 08:35 AM)StephanP Wrote:  One minor discussion topic: in his code Wes opted for the terms inner/outer as opposed to the center/tail I suggested.
1. if we choose "center" then I think its counterpart should be the plural form "tails"

The only reason I used the word "inner" instead of "center" is that I wanted to do the same thing with the other distributions (t, chi square, F) and since chi square and F are not symmetric, calling the interval "center" didn't seem quite right. And if I went with "inner" it seemed only natural to call the opposite "outer". I just made those up. If there is something more standard in textbooks, then I would go with that.

Using "tail" rather than "tails" does seem a bit ambiguous. It could mean "right tail", "left tail", or "two tail".